LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM
MICHAEL SMITH
News-Gazette,
I’ve been fortunate to know American servicemen who
served with honor in
Nothing will
resurrect the hundreds of slain civilians, ease the pain of survivors or wash
away 50 years of regret felt by some of the GIs. However, widely publicizing the story does in
some small way honor those lost that day.
Forty-five
million South Koreans owe their freedom in no small measure to the
I disagree with
John Frothingham (Oct. 10 letter) of Tolono.
Unlike him, I believe that most of your readers were interested, and
recognized that those were real mothers trying in vain to hide real children
from American soldiers, that those were real grandfathers unable to protect
their families, that those soldiers were otherwise fine young men engulfed in
their own terror committing acts that they would
normally find impossible to imagine.
Although
Frothingham says he would have given an order to fire that day, I never met a
veteran who I think would have.
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