"As for cowardice, I respect that too, even though I realize the need to punish cowardice in the face of the enemy."

Shell shock can do strange things to a man, what is cowardice. Mention was made elsewher about quakers etc whoes belifs precluded them from taking up the gun, would they be branded cowards? As a former member of both St Andrews Ambulance Asscociation and Scottish Red Cross I can say that many who would not take up the gun gave their lives right at the front tending the injured.