American’s found fighting alongside the nazis were most often exterminated on the spot as Walker should have been.
How many were there? I bet it wasn’t a lot..............
Well, we don’t summarily execute traitors on the battlefield anymore.
But, what can these guys really say? He got his trial in court. He was convicted. He admitted and confessed to involvement with the Taliban. Now, his dad wants to say that he was a good boy and didn’t really mean to get hooked up with those nasty guys halfway around the world?????
If I recall correctly, John Walker converted to Islam, and practiced Islam here in America. But he felt a yearning to be in a part of the world in which Islam is also the government. Afghanistan under the Taliban was governed by “pure Islam” according to the Taliban at the time, so John Walker had found his spiritual home there.
He should be happy if he still has his American citizenship, and that he is still alive, and will get out of prison someday. Sheesh.............
There is a scene in "Band of Brothers" where this takes place on the morning of June 6, 1944.
This has eerie memories. Went through an old shoe box in my grandparents home and there was a letter from a family member in high German begging him to return to the fatherland( Hiel Hitler in parentheses) as it was his duty to family and country.
My gramps wanted to kill the Krauts, was in the ROTC cavalry 1st sgt at UC Berkely in the 20's and also a secret Jew( learned about that only a few years ago). Gram's said the y Germans would have family members write these letters mjaking it sound so swet and they'd read it, then send it then the censors in America would open certain letters and read it thn off to gramps or whomever.
In WWII America didn't want or need him and he was allegedly frustrated as could be as they needed docs. He still made in as an NCO from 1951-1959 . Guess this is too long but it's an interesting letter and I suppose now that most folks from that era are dying these letters will end up with little to no meaning because America doesn't teach real American history anymore. I do hope they teach still in the war colleges.