Sacrificing men to save a person because they are the remaining child is bulls—t IMO. I was my parents only son. Yet they put me in harms way for several years. The case of the Sullivan bothers all on the same ship at Guadalcanal is a reason not all bothers serve in the same place at the same time. Rightly so. But my brother-in-laws all went to Nam at different times. Looking for a deserter in Iran got other sons killed. Then Barry laundered money to bring the POS home. Just Saying.
“Sacrificing men to save a person because they are the remaining child is bulls—t IMO”
Spielberg is full of it.
You’re entitled to your opinion.
Right on!
“Sacrificing men to save a person because they are the remaining child is bulls—t IMO. “
Mr. GG2,s older brother was killed while in the service about a month or two before Mr. GG2 was supposed to report for Marine sniper training. His mother invoked the sole surviving son clause. Mr. GG2 went to the induction center anyway and was pleading with the recruiting sgt. Finally some major or colonel or something got on the phone with him and said “go home son you will never be in the US military.”
So in a fit of grief and anger he got on a plane and went to Europe and travelled around the world. Ended up in Israel with the IDF on the Golan Heights as the first rockets came across in the Yom Kippur war. The IDF put an AK47 in his hands and asked if he knew how to use it. He said yes and they left him alone for 24 hours guarding a fence. They said anything tries to come across that wire kill it. We will be back for you later. The rest of the story is classified. So much for being able to keep an 18 year old from getting killed.