Life’s Golden Rule

During the month of August in a courtroom on Governor’s Island in the New York Harbor, there sat a court-martial of eight U.S. Army Officers, gathered together for the purpose of hearing the charges of murder and collaboration with the enemy brought against Sergeant James Gallagher. During his 33 months as a prisoner, Gallagher testified that he was not a murderer but a dispenser of mercy to the weaker prisoners; he said that he had not informed upon his fellow prisoners, nor accepted rewards...