MY SOAPBOX.
TIME FOR ME TO LET OFF STEAM IN THE MOST POLITICALLY INCORRECT WAY!!!!
1, MY THOUGHTS ON SHOT AT DAWN
THIS IS A HOT EMOTIVE TOPIC ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE RELATIVES WHO ARE INVOLVED. FREE PARDONS FOR ALL, WELL-- NO WAY--. MY REASONS ARE. FIRSTLY , THE ORIGINAL PAPERWORK IS NO NO LONGER THERE IN MOST CASES. THE WITNESSES AND PARTICIPANTS ARE DEAD AND UNABLE TO BE INTERROGATED. IN ALL WE CANNOT MAKE AN IMPARTIAL REVIEW IN MANY OF THE CASES, THEREFORE CANNOT ASSESS GUILT OR INNOCENCE.
IN THE MAJORITIY OF CASES THE MEN ARE OBVIOUSLT GUILTY, MANY ARE REPEAT OFFENDERS, STRUCK OFFICERS ETC THEREFORE SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED. THE GREY AREA IS IN THE CASE OF SHELL SHOCK.
I FEEL THAT THERE ARE GROUNDS TO EXAMINE A FEW CASES THAT LOOK LIKE SHELL SHOCK, BUT THESE ARE VERY FEW. GRANTING PARDONS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE AS THE EVIDENCE IS NOT THERE ANYMORE, IT WOULD ALSO BE AWFULL GRANTING PARDONS FOR SAY 20 GENUINE CASES AND IGNORING THE REST.
AT THE TIME 9 OUT OF 10 SENTENCES WERE NOT CONFIRMED, AND MY EXAMINATION OF RND PAPERS IS HERE ON MY SITE, I CANNOT FIND ANY IRREGUALRITY IN THEM. I WAS SHOCKED JUST HOW FAIR THEY WERE, AS POPULAR HISTORY HAS SOMEWHAT MUDDIED THE WATER ON THIS SUBJECT.
LASTLY HOW FAR DO WE GO BACK, BOER WAR, WELLINGON USED TO STRING PEOPLE UP FREQUENTLY DO WE PARDON THEM AS WELL, I. I FEEL THE STATEMENT OF REGRET WAS RIGHT, -IT WAS WRONG TO SHOOT MEN WHEN THEY RAN OUT OF COURAGE, BUT PARDONS NO WAY. FOR THE RECORD, BEFORE I GET DEATH THREATS, I AM AN AVID OPPONENT OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
2, WORLD WAR ONE WAS A WASTE.
I OPENLY ADMIT TO BEING OF THE REVISIONIST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.
I DON'T ACEPT THE BUTCHERS AND BUNGLERS THEORIES, CAREFUL STUDY SHOWS LESSONS WERE LEARNT AND ALTERATIONS MADE. THE GERMAN ARMY ALSO HAD A SAY IN IT AND CASUALTIES ARE SUFFERED WHEN YOU TRY AND REMOVE A DUG IN EXPERT ARMY.
BUT STUFF UPS DID HAPPENBUT NOT ALL DAY EVERYDAY
THE STATEMENT THAT THE FIRST WORLD WAR WAS A WASE REALLY UPSETS ME. WW2 WAS SEEN IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT, MANY WERE KILLED, EVEN CIVILIANS, BUT IT WAS A WAR AGAINST EVIL, THE DEFEAT OF HITLER, SO IT WAS OK.
WW1 WAS AS MUCH A WAR AGAINST AGGRESSION AND EVIL, NO LESS THAN WW2, EVEN THE COMMON VICTORY MEDAL ISSUED AFTER WW1 CONTAINED THE INSCRIPTION," THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION". MEN WERE KILLED IN VAST NUMBERS TO DEFEAT EVIL.
I FEEL IT IS WRONG TO SAY THAT THEIR LIVES WERE WASTED, IT REALLY UNDERMINES THEIR SACRIFICE WHICH IS SO SAD. WE SHOULD REGRET AND FEEL SORRY FOR THE SCALE OF LOSS, AND THE NUMBERS OF BRIGHT MEN THAT WERE LOST, BUT NEVER NEVER SAY THAT THEY WERE WASTED.
GOD I FEEL BETTER FOR GETTING THAT OFF THE CHEST