... , raised in Miami Florida. He attended Palm Beach Junior College in 1963, and failed with two C's. one D, and four F's. His father was a Navy veteran. After failing college, Calley worked as an investigator for an insurance company, at a car wash, washing cars, and as a train conductor before he entered the service. In ... ass." Another man said "Calley is just gung-ho and has no common sense... because he is small he must have been pushed around all his life by bigger people. Once he got in the Army he found he had a lot of authority." Another GI said he was a glory hungry person, ... ...

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... fieldstrip and assemble and M-14 rifle blindfolded, how to face death, and how to cause it. This was the normal lifestyle of Caputo's time, war. Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. His life was delayed from marriage, careers, and family life. Caputo joined the Marines in 1960 as a volunteer. Caputo ... there way to where the action was. Caputo as well as the rest of the marines where surprised to find that with Vietnam brought boredom. Day after day they sat around just waiting. It became a deadly routine of keeping watch and repairing things. Caputo began to...

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... was taken to Ha Noi, where Ho Chi Minh requested he join the communists. Upon his refusal Diem was surprisingly released (Tucker 81). After the death of his older brother, Diem left Vietnam. He spent two years studying at Catholic Seminaries in New Jersey and New York, for a ... Eisenhower to his side he left for Belgium where he stayed at a Benedictine monastery. Although this was a relatively peaceful time in Diem's life, he often visited with members of the large Vietnamese exile population in Paris. From these contacts sprang many of his latter commanding officers and ... played a ...

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