'”There is not day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai. I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry.
- William L. Calley
Calley didn't deny taking part in the slayings on March
Calley Apologizes For My Lai Massacre : NPR
The American soldier involved in the My Lai Massacre now apologizes. But the innocent villagers burned down there would they come alive.
A survivor of the killings said he welcomed Calley's public apology for his role the atrocity.
"It's a question of the past and we accept his apologies, although they come too late," Pham Thanh Cong, director of a small museum at My Lai, told AFP by telephone. (telegraph.co.uk)
What is the guarantee that Massacres like My Lai and Nanking would not repeat again?
History has no answer.