Re: Marine killer deserves clemency
Governments pay for a force which will protect its people, & its allies. War has changed, gone are the days of trench warfare, gentlemen s agreements, the real truth is simple, as the boys who took the Normandy beaches said, Germans were surrendering by the dozen, & we shot them. If we had left them, they would have re armed & shot us in the back. Murder. The Germans executed allied soldiers who were troublesome, remember the 50? The Great Escape. fact, not fiction.
When your enemy performs atrocities like this, what do you expect, its tit for tat. You have to be there, pumped with adrenalin, ar*e cheeks tight as a drum, your training keeping you on auto till things settle down. Then you feel like you've done a weeks work & someone dropped a truck on you.
I gave my 3 sons the same advice before they joined Junior Leaders, that my Father gave me, shoot twice & be sure.
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