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| Tango01 | 09 May 2015 12:06 p.m. PST |
… memory of his life. "Understanding the mental cost of taking someone's life can be nearly impossible for those people who have never experienced it. In this StoryCorps video, Joseph Robertson, an infantryman who served during the Battle of the Bulge, tries to explain to his son-in-law the guilt he has carried since he killed a German soldier approaching his position…"
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| Intrepide | 09 May 2015 10:33 p.m. PST |
Some can't handle it. Some don't seem to mind. Some relish it. We are strange creatures. |
| Tango01 | 10 May 2015 3:02 p.m. PST |
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| tuscaloosa | 13 May 2015 6:44 p.m. PST |
I respect this attitude a heck of a lot more than wanton bragging about killing the enemy. |
| Sebastian Palmer | 10 Jul 2015 2:33 a.m. PST |
Thanks Armand That's a good reminder of the often hidden costs of warfare. I just read Antiny Beevor's Ardennes 1944, about the Battle of the Bulge, so it was a very timely thing for me to stumble upon this! Regards, Sebastian |
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