No link cuz I got the screenshot off discord.
Bet you defend Vietnam vets too.
If you literally volunteer for the fucking SS you deserve to be shot.
This should not be controversial.
Bet you defend Vietnam vets too.
This is not a topic I’m well read on, but isn’t it a pretty complicated / controversial issue? Given the draft and treatment of conscientious objectors I mean. Feel free to dunk on my dumb ass with enlightening info
I don’t think you have to defend them to forgive them. Some vets do return to atone for their past actions and ask for forgiveness. And forgiveness they would often receive (although the Vietnamese who forgave here are typically descendants and wouldn’t remember the war). They’d still have to be responsible for actions they took in the past. We all do. The sentence would vary depending on how much you still would want to excuse or justify your past actions. If you don’t take responsibility, but rather blaming it on Uncle Sam, you’re just mocking all the people you helped murder.
I think there’s also a difference between I was drafted, purposefully injured myself on day one so I can go home, and I was drafted and begrudgingly followed orders because my life anr national pride should be prioritised over the lives of people I will help killing.
worth pointing out that the penalty for refusing was a maximum of 5 years in prison and/or a fine
they weren’t going to be murdered over it
and though 5 years in a yankee prison isn’t a picnic, you are also spending those years not being shot at by Vietnamese soldiers (or occasionally your own side lol)
