THE BATTALION
Friday, April 2, 1971
College Station, Texas
Page 5
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SAN ANTONIO OP>—The man-
on-the-street endorsed President
Nixon’s release Thursday of Lt.
William Galley Jr. as support for
him sprang up from both the
military and civilian community
here.
The county Republican Execu
tive Committee passed a resolu
tion Thursday night urging Pres
ident Nixon to grant speedy
clemency for Galley. Only one
of 33 people present voted
against it.
County GOP Chairman Van
Henry Archer released a letter
he wrote the President asking
him:
"Since when does a Vietna
mese life mean as much as one
American life or even two hun
dred Vietnamese to one Ameri
can?”
The letter continued: “this
man is not a criminal. He did
not shoot another American.”
Archer wrote the President on
Republican party stationery and
as county chairman. He suggest
ed the military tribunal that con
victed Galley walk through mili
tary hospitals and look “at some
of these pitiful Americans that
were shot up by so-called un
armed civilians.”
A survey of citizens here
showed support for Nixon’s re
lease of Galley. “It was a fool
ish thing to do in the first place,
to convict Galley of premeditated
murder,” said Jim Floyd, a State
Health Department employe.
“If he’s guilty, everyone in
Vietnam is guilty. The presi
dent’s action is very commenda
ble.”
Nixon ordered Galley’s release
at once Thursday pending com
pletion of a full review of his
conviction.
William H. Curry of Casper,
Wyo., said the President’s action
was the “proper thing to do.”
“We’re talking about a volun
teer army and it won’t be suc
cessful by prosecuting a mem
ber of the armed forces for do
ing what he’s trained to do, dis
tasteful as it is,” he said.
Curry, president of the Ameri
can Association of Petroleum Ge
ologists, was visiting here after
the group’s Houston convention.
“I was surprised to see he
freed Galley,” Augustine More
no Jr. said. “It’s a wise decision.
With elections coming up, may
be that’s why he did it.”
Of 14 people contacted on a
major downtown street here, only
one voiced opposition to Galley.
Ramon Aguilar Rosas of Mex
ico City, a cartoonist for a lead
ing Mexico newspaper, Nove-
dades, said: “I’m against Gal
ley. My Cartoons have been
against his attitude. Despite his
being a soldier, any human be
ing has to have conscience. You
can’t kill civilians.”
Earlier Thursday, before the
Nixon announcement, young
Army officers reacted bitterly to
Galley’s conviction.
“If I were a commander on
the ground,” said one, “I’d have
two radios—one to talk to my
commander. And the other to
talk to my lawyer.”
Capt. Douglas Fonnesbeck, 26,
a beribboned Vietnam veteran,
was not alone in his bitter re
action to the conviction of Lt.
William Galley Jr.
Another officer at Ft. Sam
Houston said, “Now, in a combat
situation, this judgment will
make any order by a superior
subject to question.”
Lt. Allan Van Bureu, of
Springfield, Mo., added: “One
sergeant told me the other day
that this decision has killed any
motivation he had to do the job
in Vietnam.”
Some soldiers didn’t want to
be quoted by name but voiced
support for Galley.
“It’s about 1,000 to one in Gal
ley’s favor,” said a Ft. Sam
Houston sergeant of the response
at the big Army post.
“It’s a blow to the military,
it’s a blow to any and every
serviceman in Vietnam carrying
a weapon.”
Observing a peace rally at Ft.
Sam Houston, a first sergeant
said he sent a telegram to the
President. “I told him if they
crucify Galley, they are going to
have to kiss the all-volunteer
army goodbye.”
Capt. Fonnesbeck, of Logan,
Utah, said many Army people
are “really upset about it. If this
petition the President for a full
pardon of Galley, “on the prem
ise that he was a victim of cir
cumstances.”
“Free Galley and prevent him
from becoming a living example
of our ambiguity of the policy
of the United States government
with respect to the war in south
east Asia,” the ad said. Peti
tions, it said, are in each of the
chain’s stores, “awaiting your
signature.”
A disabled veteran of World
War II, who is running for the
city council, urged the council
300 of the 900 men on the force.
The petitions ask President Nix
on to intervene on Galley’s be
half.
Elsewhere, many Texans con
tinued to react with anger:
—In Washington, Rep. Jim
Collins, R-Tex., asked President
Nixon to appoint an independent
review board to study the Galley
case.
—In Dallas, insurance broker
George Hughes Jr., who is or
ganizing Friday’s Galley “sym
pathy march,” said he expects
thousands to turn out.
‘‘Since when does one Vietnamese life
mean as much as one American life...?
ploye with the Army Corps of
Engineers at Fort Worth, wrote
to tell President Nixon his med
als had no further meaning.
“Please, Mr. President,” h e
wrote, “as commander in chief,
take personal charge of this mis
interpretation of justice.”
—Henry Ford Castro of Dal
las, who was in Vietnam 1966-67,
said he killed a 14-year-old Viet
namese and to this day does not
know whether he was a civilian
or a combat man. “Why don’t
they send me to Ft. Leavenworth
too?” he asked. “The verdict and
sentence stink. Who are they
trying to impress? The people
in Saigon?”
—A less emotional view was
taken by U. S. Rep. Bob Price,
R.-Tex., of Pampa. He told
newsmen in Amarillo: “I wasn’t
. . . none of us were, privy to the
evidence in the Galley court-mar
tial. I don’t think we can con
done the murder of innocent old
men, women and children.”
William T. Murphy resigned
from the draft board at Paris,
Tex. He wrote to tell the Presi
dent that, as the father of a son
—Lt. Pat Murphy, 23—now in
Vietnam, he did not feel he could
“in good and clear conscience ask
another father to give his son to
an Army that highly trains its
men in search-and-destroy com
bat missions and then convicts
him of murder in a general court
martial.”
is the way the Army’s going to
be, they want no part of it.”
A Tynan, Tex., officer, Lt.
Juan Rosenbaum, said of the de
cision: “I think it has affected
older combat NCOs (non-com
missioned officers) even more
than officers.”
“If I were going to be in long
er, and if I were in the Infantry,
I would give staying in the Army
a serious second thought,” Lt.
Seve Almond of Atlanta said. He
is a medical officer due for re
lease from active duty.
“Any hope they have for get
ting volunteers has got to be
hurt,” Almond said.
Many civilians in this city of
five miiltary bases also reacted
bitterly.
“If they’re going to say Gal
ley is guilty, they will have to
find Presidents Eisenhower, Ken
nedy, Johnson and Nixon guilty
because they sent those boys
over there to kill,” said Mrs.
Ronald Wright, wife of a soldier
in Vietnam.
A San Antonio grocery chain,
Handy Andy, took out a full-page
newspaper ad urging residents to
Thursday to go on record in pro
test of the verdict.
“No veteran is safe as a result
of Galley’s conviction,” Lionel
Wayne said.
The council took no action at
once.
Police circulating petitions
among fellow officers said they
had signatures from more than
—Dallas County Commissioner
Jim Tyson interrupted a commis
sioner’s meeting to remark: T
join the millions to protest the
court decision. The decision has
made me sick.”
—Maj. Edward J. Barrett of
Wylie, Tex., a World War II vet
eran with the 101st Airborne Di
vision and now a civilian em-
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The Church..For a Fuller Me..For You..
Wednesday
I Thessalonians
5:17-23
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Friday
Revelation
1:4-6
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Luke
19:28-38
On a lonely hill a man died slowly, nailed to a cross.
His crime — goodness.
He walked the hills of Judea and the shores of Gallilee, heal
ing and comforting, loving everyone He met. Confidently, simply,
He spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven, and crowds hurried to hear
His vital words.
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of Himself the Son of God seemed a threat. And so He suffered
on a cross, while a faithful few huddled in its shade and wept
at the sacrifice.
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