10-29-2024, 06:14 AM
(10-29-2024, 05:59 AM)Maxmars Wrote: It was a shameful lapse of command, a tragic loss of control... there can never be excuse to justify plain mass execution... Americans want to stand by the value of 'due process'... but there was none there.
You read my mind concerning that loss of control. I have given thought to that matter in the past. It would have been tough to find junior officers and experienced Non-Commissioned Officers with the backbone to stop those executions.
It would have taken a lot to rattle those hardened combat veterans. From a military ethics standpoint, your points are valid. But I understand how and why those GIs acted as judge, jury, and executioner.
