How about Germans who fought in WWI, or 1870? How about those who fought in the Red Army in WWII?
NB - if you don't want your diary read by Americans, find a site which they don't frequent.
Look, conscripted soldiers do what they HAVE to do. IF they can't get the fuck OUT, they do what they have to do -- they survive. If I can't rant, I don't want to be part of your revolution
A hero is someone who saves a life, right? Well... saving your own ass counts.
As long as you don't commit a fucking crime against goddamned humanity, man -- you do what you HAVE to do to survive, you get the fuck out of there, you make amends for whatever sins you feel you've committed in your time on earth, you live as good a life as you can... you get the fuck through it.
Jesus, isn't that what we all end up doing? If I can't rant, I don't want to be part of your revolution
I'm not aware of the details of the Vietnam war. If you imply that I would have implied Nort Vietnamese soldiers were heros, then you are wrong.
No I do not think the Germans in WW I were heros and I don't think the ones fighting in 1870 were heros, even when I consider that war not as criminal.
The soldiers of the Red Army in WW II may have earned such a title, but so far I have never used it. I have however used it already to describe African American soldiers in WW II, who fought not only like every other American in WW II, for the freedom of foreign countries, but as well for their own country, where they had not full citizen rights, and for the economic wellbeing of their country, of which they hadn't the chance to fully participate.
NB - it is fine when Americans read this. I don't complain. But when they are insulted by the incredible denial of respect for military service I portray, it is their own problem. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
As said elsewhere in the thread, Nazi Germany was a unique combination of truly horrible combined with extreme aggressiveness in a major world power.
