[Reily]

I don't have a problem with this.
He did what a soldier does.
If he were alive today, would anyone here have a problem with giving Robert E. Lee back his citizenship?
He became citizen of a rebelling section of the country, that for all intents and purposes was another country. He made war on the country he had sworn to serve. He was the leading military figure in a conflict that costs the North (i.e. the USG!) 300000 lives (the South roughly the same!) Heck I would even give Jeff Davis his citizenship back if he was alive to accept it and wanted it.
I once met an American citizen who had been a U-boat captain. He was an engineer at a local plant where I grew up.
If this guy had been a commander of a POW camp, then I would ask a lot of questions & demand documentation before I would even consider. Remember Japanese POW camps had a higher mortality rate then German concentration camps.

[max americana]

>I once met an American citizen who had been a U-boat captain. He was an engineer at a local plant where I grew up.<

My granddad during the 50’s was working for a TV station in the Pac Northwest when he was single and out of high school. When he went to church, he befriended a nice Japanese old dude and he later confessed at a parish get together that he used to be an Imperial guard who was stationed in the Philippines, and he did...”stuff”. That old guy added ‘I wished I didn’t do those horrible things but we had to do what our emperor told us to do.”