Alan Schechner is currently an artist, who is known for controversial art which digitally manipulates Holocaust photos.

I guess his experience seems no less valid than that of the other Israeli soldier I quoted many posts back who saw himself as unfairly portrayed as a monster. Is one of them fudging the truth a bit? Are both? Did one happen to end up with a lousy outfit, while the other wound up with a decent one? One wonders what the objective picture is, and if we can ever find out.

Damn few soldiers are angels. Some rotten stuff went down in Viet Nam that our boys were in the middle of too. And no doubt shit happened in every other war back to the dawn of time, although a case can be made that even the worst modern warriors behave better than ancient ones. No one recently has impaled thousands of their enemies on fields of spikes, for example.

As Captain Kirk once said, that's what makes war a thing to be avoided.