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Articles by Gary Kulik

Gary Kulik most recently served as a deputy director of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. Previously, he was a department head and an assistant director of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and the editor of American Quarterly. He is also a decorated veteran of the war in Vietnam, having served as a medic in the Fourth Infantry Division and in the Sixty-first Medical Battalion. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

False Atrocity Tales from the War in Vietnam
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009 – 13:10 | 2 Comments
False Atrocity Tales from the War in Vietnam

A young lance corporal, who could not distinguish between a legal and an illegal order, shot an unresisting, unarmed, and unnamed woman in the back, in front of children that were likely hers. He and his company commander were court-martialed.

Was William Calley a Scapegoat?
Thursday, 1 Oct, 2009 – 12:00 | 2 Comments
Was William Calley a Scapegoat?

Ever since the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, many have held that higher-ups were more responsible than William Calley, who was convicted of murder and now has issued his first public apology. Gary Kulik, himself a Vietnam veteran, declines to shift the blame.

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