Potential Memorial Day Pardons

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(11-25-2019, 01:05 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Not commenting on the rest of it, but it seems a bit much to court martial and demote a guy for posing with a dead body.  Riddle that dude with bullets, good job.  Take a picture with his corpse, court martial!  Given that standard every guy who served in the Pacific theater in WW2 would be in Levenworth for life.  I completely understand why the military doesn't want that kind of thing happening, but a formal court martial still seems extreme.

It reminds me of the line in Apocalypse Now, " We train young men to drop fire on people, but we won't let them write f%@k on their airplane, because it's obscene."

War, from what I am told, is hell.

But we hold ourselves to higher standards than the "barbarians" we are fighting.