William Calley

William Calley died in April.   

During the Vietnam War, Calley led his army platoon into the village of My Lai, where the Americans raped and killed 504 civilians. 

Calley was tried for war crimes, convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but President Nixon, a weird creep, let him off. 

Calley went on to lead a normal life, unlike the 504 he'd murdered. He eventually apologized for the massacre.  He was probably sincere.     

ters) - William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his U.S. Army platoon into the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai and carried out one of the worst war crimes in American military history, has died, according to media reports. He was 80.

The Washington Post on Monday first reported Calley's death, which happened in April, according to a death certificate the newspaper cited. The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death.

Neither paper reported a cause of death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned.

American soldiers killed 504 people on March 16, 1968, in Son My, a collection of hamlets between the central Vietnamese coast and a ridge of misty mountains, in an incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings shocked the U.S. and galvanized the anti-war movement.