“I told him straight up. I told him I don’t think that these guys deserve to get punished for anything. I told him, ‘I think it goes higher than Lt. Lorance.’ I told him, ‘If Lt. Lorance is getting court-martialed, why isn’t the company commander getting court-martialed? How come nothing is happening to the platoon sergeant? How come nothing happened to anybody else, but we are all just hammering on this guy?’ “Those guys down there … they were in a gunfight every day. They had a hostile environment. Lt. Lorance went down there, and then they try to say he was out of control. But, no, that’s
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