“If I have any sympathy at all it is for the dozens of families that were devastated when their sons died looking for this POS.”
My sympathy is 100% with them as well and I hope the truth absolutely comes out.
The truth is out. He deserted his unit and at least a half dozen good soldiers died trying to find him.
Unless you have some evidence to support any other theory about what happened, then you wouldn't accept the truth if it bit you on the behind.
He advised his father that he was going to desert and his father advised him to follow his conscience.
And you have "sympathy" for him?
Sorry, I'll reserve my sympathy for the victims of this clown and his clown family.