Ok, I re-read your posts. In post #25 you said..
“He can’t pay for his mistakes by being a soldier and doing what his comrades have always been doing in theater. This would be akin to me screwing up on the job and saying to my boss. “OK, I’m sorry, please allow me to make my restitution by returning to my job and doing it right!”
Actually, a *good* boss *will* allow you to try and make things right. If you have a boss that thinks otherwise, you work in a place where no mistakes are ever made. That doesn’t describe anywhere I ever worked.
That being said, I do agree that some mistakes are firing offenses. In any situation, I hope that it’s my boss gets to decide, and not someone 10,000 miles away, basing the decision on media reports.
Are you sure you are commenting to my posts? I say this with all due respect but it looks like you are seeing things that are not there. Who said anything about the boss’ actions???
I originally commented on Yon’s claims that the soldier is making amends, not on what is, or is not, an appropriate punishment for him. The fragment you quoted was an alegory about an employee asking for his punishment to be a return to normalcy, nothing to do with the boss or his actions, the commander, the commander in chief, the Vietnam War, advice to the military or anything else even remotely similar!!! ;-)