Photos show U.S. troops' 'inhuman conduct' with suicide bombers' bodies, page 12

reply to post by Blaine91555

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Personally, despite what may or may not have been the intentions of the current lapdog press agencies, at least the end result is that they are doing their job. The more openness the better. The more openness with information, the more - perhaps (one can dream) - the more likelihood that people will become disgusted with this whole twisted (mis-)adventure in patriotic ego-stroking (not just Afghanistan).

I say, let it all out - not just the soft, cushy, human-interest fluff about veterans with mental health problems, or who can't find work (probably because of the mental health problems) or who have high suicide rates (most definitely because of the mental health problems) or who beat their spouses or children or become alcoholics or pill-heads or heroin addicts...

Let out all the corpse-mutilation and village massacres and "Collateral Murder" and "Downing Street Memos" and Secret Service Sex Scandals and Pay-to-Play Political Parties and all the other deprived, immoral, unthinking, willful ignorance that this country has to offer...let it all out in the sunshine and then maybe the citizenry will be forced to show some recognizable compassion...anything outside of their disgusting little masturbatory bubbles where they watch other people's "realities" and think everything's just fine.

Originally posted by Another10Pin
reply to post by RyanFromCan

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May I ask, what year and month did your father enter WWII?

Read my post, I never said he was in WW2, he was alive then, and lied through the bombings, actually being displaced by them. I did say however he served in the British army of occupation in Germany, AFTER WW2. the incident I alluded too happened in 1955 in Osnabrück.

reply to post by OldCorp

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I dont want to be that guy, but you really think thats a fair argument, remember most of the bombing that has taken place in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of innocent Afghans but i am sure you will say that its the price of war, and to say that these idiots holding pieces of suicide bombers body is just disturbing, they are meant to be fighting a war, sorry i should have said an illegal war not posing with pieces of bodies, how many more pictures are gonna be leaked are you going to say that its okay if they pose with a group of dead children who were brainwashed into picking up a gun?

Originally posted by RyanFromCan

Originally posted by Another10Pin
reply to post by RyanFromCan

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May I ask, what year and month did your father enter WWII?

Read my post, I never said he was in WW2, he was alive then, and lied through the bombings, actually being displaced by them. I did say however he served in the British army of occupation in Germany, AFTER WW2. the incident I alluded too happened in 1955 in Osnabrück.

I read your post. I was trying to make a subtle point ... unfortunately, it did not work.

I am glad to know that your father survived those times and has been able to impress upon you the convictions that he has developed due to his experiences. It is unfortunate, I think, that we are losing so many of that generation so quickly - because they still have a lot to teach us and we still have a lot to learn from them.

I hope that your father continues to pass on his knowledge to you, and that you continue to educate yourself regarding these issues. My regards to your father, and cheers to you!

reply to post by real1tys8

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it's the result of sending all your traler trash to go make war overseas. no education, no values, no morals. no respect. and what do you get

Not everyone in the US military lives up to the standards with regard to behavior; just like society. These actions are not a reflection of the military or the country as a whole but rather a portion of EVERY society. By the way, before you call American military members uneducated trailer trash maybe you should learn how to spell TRAILER.

Consider that a grammar lesson from an American military member! Next lesson will be capitalization.

reply to post by queenofsheba

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This drooling, knuckle-dragging, scratchin' and spittin' bit of trailer trash scored a 97 percent on the ASVAB. I've got to wonder how the obviously smarter and better educated specimen of sterling humanity that you were responding to would have done, had he grown a pair and stooped to the level of us mere commoners long enough to wiggle the pencil.

Hell, I bet his answer form would have caught fire from the speed he was getting stuff right at!

There's not a doubt in my mind that he's more intelligent, better educated, better looking, a better dresser, and probably completely irresistible on every level from the intellectual to the horizontal, and an altogether better human being than I am, so I'm sure his score would have been a cinch!

reply to post by Another10Pin

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I apologize that I missed the intent of your post, he lived through hell in the war, and had every reason to "hate " the :"hun", but he did not, he knew they were soldiers too, who fought for their country, and commanders, but were human as much as he was. As a matter of fact, he years later returned to Germany as an English teacher, he had a girlfriend while there, the daughter of a "Jewess" that was smuggled along withe her mother (Grandmother of his girlfriend), out of Dachau by an SS officer who later married her mother. My father would have married her if it was not for the objections of his family.

My father also served in Suez after his tor in Germany, so he does know the horrors of combat, something he speaks very little about.

As an aside, while watching the series "Band of Brothers", he mentioned a scene where a US soldier (officer I believe) was "looting" a Nazi establishment, for silver tea sets, he mentioned to me, that if that had happened int he British army, it would not only be not condoned, but the perpetrator would have been "up on charge!"

I know I am very lucky to have a living piece of history, I have been told a few times to start recording our long conversations, so they are not lost, and when I have children (I was a late life decision by my parents, dad was in his 40's) They will get to know their grandfather. I have talked to my father, and he is agreeable.

Oh, my father was born in April, 1936.

Originally posted by RyanFromCan
reply to post by Another10Pin

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I apologize that I missed the intent of your post, he lived through hell in the war, and had every reason to "hate " the :"hun", but he did not, he knew they were soldiers too, who fought for their country, and commanders, but were human as much as he was. As a matter of fact, he years later returned to Germany as an English teacher, he had a girlfriend while there, the daughter of a "Jewess" that was smuggled along withe her mother (Grandmother of his girlfriend), out of Dachau by an SS officer who later married her mother. My father would have married her if it was not for the objections of his family.

My father also served in Suez after his tor in Germany, so he does know the horrors of combat, something he speaks very little about.

As an aside, while watching the series "Band of Brothers", he mentioned a scene where a US soldier (officer I believe) was "looting" a Nazi establishment, for silver tea sets, he mentioned to me, that if that had happened int he British army, it would not only be not condoned, but the perpetrator would have been "up on charge!"

I know I am very lucky to have a living piece of history, I have been told a few times to start recording our long conversations, so they are not lost, and when I have children (I was a late life decision by my parents, dad was in his 40's) They will get to know their grandfather. I have talked to my father, and he is agreeable.

Oh, my father was born in April, 1936.

Happy Birthday to your father. Many more to come, I hope. And I hope you will be able to communicate to your children what your father has communicated to you.

Most men of that generation (and those who fought in Korea and Vietnam) who actually saw combat ... rarely talk of it. War is horrific ... it does horrific things to the mind ... and people do horrific things in war. Most just want to forget, but are never able to.

When I was a much younger buck and fresh to the Corps, I had an old Marine friend who served in WWII - he was one of the island hoppers in the Pacific. He was at Tarawa and Iwo Jima. Him and I would talk about the Corps and our Country, family and friends, and life ... We would talk about the Corps the way it was when he was in, and what it had become when I was in. He would tell me about being out at sea on ship, moving from island to island ... but we would rarely talk about what he had experienced on those islands. He would start to tell me little things, and then just stop. He couldn't do it. And as much as I wanted to ask, I respected his solitude in this regard.

After all he had experienced, he came home and was a happy man, raised a family, then some years ago left this life as it was ... and he was - happy. A gregarious, good natured man who in his life had done some terrible things. One of the many WWII combat vets that just left the world with little fanfare. I miss him.

There is a change of perspective in the generations in regards to this, as you already know. I think in your earlier post you referred to them as the "kill generation". I have to say, I don't know what to make of these generations. Things have certainly changed. I was telling another member, I was on the wheel for so long, that when I got off, I could no longer recognize my country.

But in regards to this thread, I will say again ... there is no dignity in war. And incidence such as the OP describes will never stop. People are people.

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