"WTF!!!! - Can you actually READ Mr Carroll??? What part of this do you NOT UNDERSTAND???"
Will you stop talking down to people, you bullying moron - you really aren't bright enough to do that to anybody.
It doesn't matter who Tommy Kenny was unless you are calling him a liar or claiming he is a figment of my imagination - his story exists as recorded as archived and was witness by John Faulkner and Sandra Kerr - so which is it to be - was Tommy lying or am I?
As for Tommy's story not existing elsewhere - probably the stupidest thing you have said to date
Tommy's story is identical to many accounts of World War One - young ben not able to find work, dissatisfied with their lives tricked into joining up by the promise of a regular job and the romance of travel and a unifirm to attract the girls - as old as warfare itself - utterly crass.
The army didn't need military policemen to force men to fight against their will - what king of stupid argument is that.
They had laws and the threat of imprisonment and the firing squad if, once enlisted or recruited, they refused to fight.
Please don't try to throw dust in my eyes with your supposed military knowledge (gained no doubt in the galley of your cross-channel ferry while you were washing the pots)
THe lads who fought and died were, by and largely r#tricked into doing so with false promises of a better world and other enticements - there are enough examples of ex-soldiers saying so - Harry Patch being one of them.
Their sacrifice deserved far more than your jingoistic establishment bollocks.
Jim Carroll