Calley Pardoned

• Calley was convicted and sentenced. The public in general was outraged. President Nixon used executive privilege to order that Calley serve his three year sentence at home.

• As a result of this event, protestors in the U.S. came to refer to American soldiers in Vietnam as "baby killers."

• Calley lived for the next forty years in Columbus, Georgia, where his children attended Brookstone.

• The following clip from Forrest Gump illustrates the disdain that "hippies" had for soldiers

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