Saving the life of an enemy soldier is not an unusual thing.
I was on a coastal patrol aboard a Vietnamese boat when we were asked to investigate something up a small slip of a canal. A few hundred yards in and we took fire from bushes along the shore. We returned fire and when the shooting stopped, we went to check the damage. There were several dead VC and one young woman in her early 20s with 3 rounds in her chest. I took her AK47 from her hand, slowed the flow of blood and we got a medevac helicopter to get her to a hospital. Five or six weeks later, my C.O. received a note from the womens’ POW camp, It was a thank you note from her for saving her life.
Wow