> No one likes to think about their ‘good guy’ killing captured or surrendered enemy soldiers. But it happens like it or not is happens. <
A friend of the family was in the US Army during WW II. He served in the Italian campaign. And one day he told us this story. It bothers me still.
It was early in 1945. The Germans were retreating northward towards Germany.. The Allies pursued them. Our friend’s unit took no prisoners. Any German who surrendered was shot.
Our friend explained. If we took prisoners, we would have to detach men to escort them to the rear. They would weaken our unit, and perhaps fatally so. So we shot the prisoners instead.
Gen. Sherman was right. War is hell.
Well, some truly evil people are killed off in war. I am comfortable enough to count that as a good thing.
The Union soldiers were the good guys?
Could have fooled me. Then again, IMO, Lincoln, was a vapid POS who should have had his goon head blown apart 5 years earlier.
We wouldn’t have the EPA, fed.gov gun laws and 2 gallon per flush toilets.