Actually my parents were on the ground just outside Dresden, being evacuated from the East and the onrushing Soviets, watched the firebombing from a railroad siding. I don’t dispute what Sherman did didn’t help end the war, it was just kind of indiscriminate.
Indiscriminate is the regular misfortune of war. I can’t imagine any war without that discussion. Losing loved ones to war can harden hearts to seek quicker and often messier indiscriminate solutions to end that war. Should Sherman have used more restraint? Sure, he could have controlled the ignorant bad-apple draftee who was looting, raping and pillaging. He could have tried to discriminate one business for destruction over another. He could have spent a lot of time disciplining, drilling, investigating, convicting and punishing his own men. Or he could hurry up and get the job done by finishing the war with the army he had.
what sherman ordered was a WAR CRIME, a CRIME AGAINST PEACE & a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
" sherman the destroyer" should have been hanged.
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