Just as the testimony at one trial was ending at Fort Benning, more atrocities were being described 100 miles away at Atlanta's Fort McPherson. Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, a 40-year-old veteran of combat in Korea and Viet Nam, was drafting military charges against a general and a colonel whom he accused of covering up war crimes that occurred two years ago. The officers are Major General John Barnes, an ex-brigade commander, and Colonel Joseph R. Franklin, who was a member of the Army's Peers Panel that investigated the My Lai Massacre.
Colonel Herbert maintains that when he served under Barnes and...
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