Talk:No Gun Ri massacre: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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With you all watching, the {{RPA}}. But then we’ll have a new problem: an overloaded article running too long with ping-ponging, wordy “he said vs. he said” over trivia. The above Corporal Hesselman, for example, isn’t even needed in the article. (SKorean investigators said 17 ex-soldiers spoke of orders at NGR.) Such are the decisions that will have to be made as we go along. Thanks. [[User:Cjhanley|Charles J. Hanley]] ([[User talk:Cjhanley|talk]]) 15:03, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

: A quick reply. Mr Hanley has yet to cite a [[WP:RS]] stating Hesselman wasn't medically evacuated. Hesselman's memory is so taineted, in fact, that he [http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/053100korea-massacre-ap.html remembers individuals present who were positively proven to have not been there]. This is not trivia, either. Hesselman is/was on of three individuals who recalled explicit orders from the chain of command to open fire on the refugees. If he wasn't there (and for the record, neither were the other two who stated there were direct chain of command orders) that is 100% relevant to this article. Not just because I say it is but because many reliable second hand sources have written about its relevance to these vents.

: This also an example of Hanley's [[WP:COI]]. The only place Hesselman is mentioned is in the AP subsection and directly goes to challenge the credibility of several assertions made by the AP team. You can all understand now why Mr Hanley would like to see it removed. [[User:WeldNeck|WeldNeck]] ([[User talk:WeldNeck|talk]]) 15:23, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

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