Re: Cover ups

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 10:51 PM 8/9/01 EDT, RonaldS842@aol.com wrote:
>   Seriously, remember Paul Fissell's book, "Making of a Skeptic"? He was a 
>platoon leader at the end of WWII. His boys surrounded a bomb crater with 
>15-20 unarmed German boys crying and pleading for help. His boys
methodically 
>shot them all point blank as they tried to crawl out. All the time hooping 
>and halloring Texas style. They called it the great turkey shoot. 
>   Is that your clear logic? If that is what you condone you wouldn't serve 
>with me.

Were these fellows in the German military?  If so, then, yes, they were
legal targets until such time as they actually surrendered.

The system I have set out is the state of the law under the United States'
UCMJ.  I served for quite a few years under the UCMJ and was quite content
to do so.  What military service did you serve in, Ron?  I suspect they had
a parallel provision. 

Marc

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