We have so many reasons to be proud of our country and our countrymen. I love hearing and reading stories like that. Contrast that with something I read in “The Last Battle,” by Cornelius Ryan, about the Battle of Berlin. A Soviet soldier burst into a house looking for National Socialists to kill. The women inside cowered, but we’re sure they were about get raped (again). The soldier told them, in broken German, they didn’t have to worry about him, it was the second and third waves behind him that will rape them and loot their home.
Americans uniform are the face of the US wherever they are deployed... and I am always proud of them in what I see and read.
I work on a university campus and the MOST courteous and decent kids here are ROTC.