amyk
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Post by amyk on Feb 17, 2024 21:49:52 GMT -5
This made me think about the way Hannibal said what he said about Decker blowing up hospitals. I think he said something that indicated Dekker enjoyed blowing up the hospitals. But would Hannibal have blown up a hospital, if he was ordered to do so, yet without taking any pleasure in it? I suppose it is easy for us to sit here and say we would never do something like that, but I think in the midst of a war and being in the military, it may not be as black and white as it seems to those removed from that situation.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 19, 2024 9:29:16 GMT -5
This made me think about the way Hannibal said what he said about Decker blowing up hospitals. I think he said something that indicated Dekker enjoyed blowing up the hospitals. But would Hannibal have blown up a hospital, if he was ordered to do so, yet without taking any pleasure in it? I suppose it is easy for us to sit here and say we would never do something like that, but I think in the midst of a war and being in the military, it may not be as black and white as it seems to those removed from that situation. That's how I see it. After all, if not ordered to, do we really believe Hannibal would have robbed the Hanoi Bank? How many other undesirable missions did they do in Vietnam that we don't hear about?
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Post by amyk on Feb 20, 2024 19:48:02 GMT -5
I would so hate to have to shoot and kill people in a war. I guess the way someone can do it is to have the kind of perspective Hannibal had when he was on trial. He said something like "They were the enemy. They killed us. We killed them. That's what you do in a war." That may not be exactly what he said, but I think it is the basic idea that he was saying.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 21, 2024 9:25:49 GMT -5
I would so hate to have to shoot and kill people in a war. I guess the way someone can do it is to have the kind of perspective Hannibal had when he was on trial. He said something like "They were the enemy. They killed us. We killed them. That's what you do in a war." That may not be exactly what he said, but I think it is the basic idea that he was saying. And I think that's why the armed forces around the world have seen a decrease in enlistment, especially those that are not conscription armies. The horror stories from Vietnam alone are usually enough to turn someone's stomach.
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Post by Katia on Feb 22, 2024 22:28:13 GMT -5
And that's why many people were draft dodgers. Yes, some were "cowards" (or, y'know, didn't think it was a cause worth dying for), but others didn't want to kill. (There's a really powerful scene in All In The Family where Mike/Gloria have a friend to dinner who turns out to be a draft dodger... and the other guest to dinner is Archie's friend who's a Gold Star father...)
What gets me about the Vietnam war is that so many people looked down on draft dodgers... but then also on the guys who did go to fight when they came back. Like, you can't have it both ways...
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