Private Eddie Slovik/Merged

[milprileb]

Well, okay then, debate the merits of the case regarding how guilty of desertion is for having deserting TWICE for a soldier in a war.

And if he got the same justice for the crime as other deserters.

Just let me toss this your way in this academic chase of excellence: how much justice did the KIA get for doing their duty get in WWII ???? They lost it all for all of us and never will get this kind of attention regarding individual by name recognition for their sacrifice.

I do not think the US Army executed this deserter without sufficient justification and I will not second guess them on that.

nuff said.

[John Kepler]

Frankly, I've never understood all the decades-worth of "hand-wringing" over the Slovik case. That he was the only one executed doesn't make his case all that unique....but rather does so in the cases that where the guilty party wasn't! From any direction you choose to look at it from...he glaringly deserved the punishment he got.

Remember gang....the President that executed the most soldiers for desertion is the very same one that granted the most pardons for the offense (Abraham Lincoln)