Pardon my absence, financial, domestic issues...* Trump’s ‘War’ The United States Military Code of Justice specifically prohibits firing on Shipwrecked Survivors – The most notorious case was the Peleus incident of March 1944, which became a landmark prosecution for war crimes at sea. After the German U-boat U-852 sank the Greek freighter Peleus in the South Atlantic, Commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to systematically machine-gun survivors on life rafts and in the water for several hours . https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1997/february/peleus-war-crimes-trial The Peleus was bound from Freetown to the River Plate... 'Nobody on the tramp saw the surfaced U-boat chasing them; consequently, by 19:20hrs. the U-852 was only 600 yards away when Eck fired two torpedoes, both of which hit the target on the starboard side and caused devastating damage. The ship sank in less than three minutes, with no time to launch the lif...
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Recent weeks call to mind events from my youth. I was 13: ‘May 4, 1970 . At Kent State University, the Ohio National Guard shot unarmed college students — some who were protesting the war and others who were passing by. The guards fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students (Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Knox Schroeder) and wounding nine others.’ https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kent-state-massacre/ I recall being confused, and somewhat anxious about American Soldiers shooting and killing students at the university. I recall asking my Mom why American Soldiers were Shooting American Students. I remember she said it was ‘complicated’, and the Students were ‘Rioting’ at the College. Oh. I also recall the words of Crosby, Stills. Nash & Young: ‘Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground? How can you run...
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