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Thread #33630   Message #452460
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Apr-01 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: Another Vietnam Massacre Emerges
Subject: RE: Another Vietnam Massacre Emerges
I don't know spaw. That's one reason I wouldn't trust myself to fight in any army, no matter what the alternative.

All I know is there's one rule for judging other people - and that's don't rush to judgement, because you don't know if you'd have done anything different or better. But there's another rule for judging yourself, and that means accepting responsibility for what you have done, and that killing unarmed prisoners is murder. And part of accepting responsibility means telling the truth about what really happened.

I believe and hope that most soldiers in most wars do manage most of the time not to behave like Nazis. Even including Vietnam. I've always told myself that the Calleys were the exception.