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Originally posted by wolf
I'm not sure, but I think tw just implied "they were only following orders."
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Allow me to be more specific. They were only following orders. Orders that were as legal then as they are today under the Geneva Convention. It is what war is about and why war should be fought for nothing less than a smoking gun.
Leadership screws up. Little people suffer the consequences. How many innocent Vietnamese were killed because America decided to fight an illegal and unjustified war in Vietnam - based upon outright lies from Richard Nixon. Because Richard Nixon so blantantly lied, then well over 1/2 million American soldiers don't deserved to be honored for their sacrifice? It is the least we must do; to honor the little people on all sides who did and lost the most - only because they did what is required of them by society.
To not give German soldiers their just recognition would be to make a decision only based upon emotion. "They were Germans; therefore they were evil". That is Rush Limbaugh logic. It is simplistic, sophmoric, and wrong. The evil was back there in the Reich. Many hanged for their crimes. Unfortuntately too many innocent soldiers on both sides had to die before the real problem could be eliminated. Welcome to what war is all about.
No member of the Third Reich should been honored at those D-Day celebrations. Everyone else should be welcome and should be honored to meet the men they once had to kill. It is what society really comes down to. It is even a concept that every truly religious person should fully understand without question or doubt.
Am I posting something so new to everyone here? Posted is nothing new or revolutionary.