You know what Charles, you're absolutely right. My personal opinion
would be that even mentioning the conduct of a few American servicemen
in Vietnam, or anywhere else in the same context as the German army in
World War II is an abomination. Further it is a libel on the US
military of the type usually heard from the anti-military types in
this country (US) who are adept at guilt by association)
My fault entirely for being too quick with the cut & paste and not
reading, and understanding, what I'm pasting. In general I like Robert
Kershaw's books but in this case he is dead wrong when it comes to the
American military.
My apologies for letting that get past me. I'm actually embarrassed
about it.
Erinnerungen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:55:25 -0800, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:28:21 -0500, Erinnerungen <ugh@bingbam.com>
>wrote:
>
>> That
>>this can degrade combat sustainability has been demonstrated by French
>>soldiers in Algeria serving during the past colonial civil war and by
>>American troops in Vietnam. Malaise induced by seemingly pointless,
>>yet officially sponsored, violence reduced the justification of
>>prosecuting the Russian war to German soldiers to one of mere
>>survival.
>
>If I am correctly interpreting your narrative, it would seem you are
>equating the state sponsored, mass extinction by the Nazi's of the
>Soviet armed forces with a few criminal acts by individual American
>servicemen in Vietnam.
>
>If so, there could be nothing further from the truth. The Germans,
>a.k.a. Nazis intentionally set out to exterminate Russian soldiers as
>Hitler deemed them as being sub-human. The policy of the United
>States in Vietnam was, in no means, reflected in the criminal acts of
>a few individuals.
>
>Whereas I appreciate the historical nature of the photographs you have
>been posting, I find it imperative to keep in mind the horrific and
>some would say evil behaviors of the German nation in the prosecution
>of virtually every aspect of WWII.
>
>All just my humble opinion and I do thank you for posting the
>photographs.
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