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48. Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investi-
-ationr into tne My Lai Incident. I. The Report of the Investigation
(The Peers Report) (Washington, D.C.: 1970), p. 3-5.
"49. See Hamner and Organ, Organizational Behavior, pp. 195-201.
50. An anonymous soldier who was at My Lai, in Murray Polner, No Victor,
Parades, p. 50. See also the Peers Report, pp. 5-13 to 5-T5 and pp. 6-2
and 6-17.
51. Sgt. Scott Caniel, 1st Marine Division, in Richard Boyle, The Flower
of the Dragon (San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1972).
52. Jack Anderson, "Psychiatric Casualties in Vietnam," p. 28.
53. See Chapter 5, "Racial Relations."
54. William Hausman, "Psychiatric Casuaities in Vietnam," p. 29.
55. John A. Talbott, "Psychiatric Casualties in Vietnam," p. 29.
56. David V. Forrest, "Psychiatric Casualties in Vletndm," p. 21.
57. This was not true of course, for more serious abuse, which remained an
important concern. Dr. John K. Imahara summarized some of the potential
psychiatric problems arising from drug abuse: (in "Psychiatric
Casualties in Vietnam," p. 28)
Not infrequently ýxplosive situations irising from the combination
of drugs, available weapons, and stress necessitated confinement
of the passive resistive marihuana smoker, the paranoid
methampnetamine injector, the hyperactive amphetamine user, the
AWOL emaciated opium injector, and the moody indivilual who takes
barbiturates. The use of drugs in combination was common.
58. Peter Bourne, Men, Stress, and Vietnam, p. 76.
59. Peter Karsten, "On the Causes of War Crimes and Some Measures
That Could Make Such Crimes Less Likely in the Future," an unpublished
paper from the University of Pittsburgh.
60. See, for example, Colbach and Par'.sh, "Army Mental Health," p. 111-39.
61, H. S. Bloch, "Psychological Adjustment of Normal People During a Year's r
Tour in Vietnam," p. 111-5.
52. A. 0. Ludwig, "Neuroses Occurring in Soldiers after Prolonged Exposure,"
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 11 January 1947.
63. R. R. Grinker and J. P. Speigel, Men Under Stress (New York: McGraw
Hill, 1963).
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