author name] Word Count: 1‚099 The My Lai Massacre occurred on the 16th of March‚ 19681. Lieutenant William Calley led the 1st Platoon of the Charlie Company. Captain Ernest L. Medina gave Lt. Calley orders and in turn Lt. Calley gave the ground troopers ours. A lot of us did not entirely agree with our orders however we could not argue. I did not know it at the time; however‚ Lieutenant Calley was under direct orders from Captain Medina2. We thought Lt. Calley would show some sort of mercy
Premium Vietnam War English-language films My Lai Massacre
just explore one’s path to solving the situation‚ but leads to others triumphing through adversities‚ or discovering corrupt identities. In the play‚ Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ Iago demanded revenge on Othello for making Cassio his lieutenant. Naive to the plan‚ Othello trusted Iago with all his heart and believed all the false rumours Iago had been spreading about Othello’s devoted wife‚ Desdemona. William Shakespeare explores the effect of
Premium Othello Iago Sociology
the appellant admitted that he was really keeping a firearm given by former barrio lieutenant Pantaleon Garcia. Appellant was later taken to the municipal building‚ where the appellant expressly and voluntarily admitted that he received a gun from Pantaleon Garcia and then hid it by burying the can containing it. Appellant insists on his acquittal for the sole reason that he delivered the gun to barrio lieutenant Pedro Arenas when he announced “that anyone who is concealing firearms should surrender
Premium Trial court Criminal law Appeal
After being given news of the battle of Lexington and Concord‚ Alexander Hamilton began to prepare for the war. With an old friend Robert Troup and other King’s College men‚ Hamilton formed a volunteer musket drill unit and‚ with the assistance of some of his veteran professors‚ trained a group of young college boys to shoot and fight. Hamilton also began studying artillery with the help from his math professor. Alexander and his volunteers had their first military action on the night of August 23
Premium Continental Army George Washington American Revolutionary War
honorable man. His false displays begin with him and Roderego informing Brabantio of Desedemona’s marriage to Othello‚ a Moor. The reader knows from the conversation between Iago and Roderego in Act I scene 1 that the two men are upset that Iago is not Lieutenant and Roderego cannot have Desedemona and they are acting out of Malice and retaliation. But‚ to Brabantio‚ their acts appear to be out of concern for the well being of Desedemona and respect for
Premium Othello Iago William Shakespeare
the American 1-7 Cavalry‚ commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Moore‚ and elements of the 9th Battalion‚ 66th Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army at a landing zone on the Chu Pong that the Americans named landing zone X-Ray. The two sides continued to fight through both days until the North Vietnamese Regiment withdrew during the night of November 15th (Tucker‚ 2011‚ p. 527). After the fighting on the 14th and 15th of November 2-7 Cavalry‚ commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert McDade‚ replaced the
Premium World War II Vietnam War United States
he California Republic was a short-lived‚ unrecognized state that‚ for a few weeks in 1846‚ militarily controlled the area to the north of the San Francisco Bay in the present-day state of California. In June 1846‚ a number of American immigrants in Alta California rebelled against the Mexican department’s government. The immigrants had not been allowed to buy or rent land and had been threatened with expulsion from California because they had entered without official permission. Mexican officials
Premium United States Mexico California
soldiers could be so inhumane. Truth and revelation are realised in the scene where Elsa discovers the truth about her husband’s work in the Nazi concentration camp and her opinion of him immediately changes forever. Herman uses the dialogue with Lieutenant Kotler’s rhetorical question‚ to Elsa‚ Bruno’s mother‚ “They smell even worse when they burn‚ don’t they?” to create the moment of truth for her and the audience. In this scene as the audience begins to understand the real truth and horror behind
Premium Nazi Germany Jews Nazi concentration camps
Bess Crawford Bess Crawford is a World War I British army nurse. Caroline and Charles Todd the two American authors under the pseudonym of Charles Todd created the Bess Crawford series which eventually grew to be a popular and highly rated in the last 5 years. The first of the Bess Crawford series was in the year 2009 and was called ‘A Duty to the Dead’. Bess Crawford series has 7 novels so far on the Fiction genre. The Mystery series of Bess Crawford began with ‘A Duty to the Dead’ in 2009 and
Premium Literature Fiction Aphra Behn
Hispanic POW of the Vietnam era. Remarkably‚ Camacho escaped his captors after 20 months and made his way to freedom. He was awarded the Silver and Bronze Stars in September 1965 and later promoted to Captain‚ U.S. Army. Lieutenant Commander Everett Alvarez‚ Jr. (then Lieutenant JG) was the first American pilot taken as a prisoner of war and remained a prisoner longer than anyone else‚ eight and a half years. On April 30‚ 1975‚ Master Sergeant Juan J. Valdez climbed aboard the last U.S. helicopter
Premium United States Navy Vietnam War Navy