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I wonder if returning soldiers from D-Day and Iwo Jima would have allowed themselves to be crushed in similar circumstances. I doubt it very much.
(Seems to me both the zeitgeist and ethics have changed greatly in the past 75 years. The question is why.)
BTW, I note this story is now here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079154
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I wonder if returning soldiers from D-Day and Iwo Jima would have allowed themselves to be crushed in similar circumstances. I doubt it very much.
(Seems to me both the zeitgeist and ethics have changed greatly in the past 75 years. The question is why.)
BTW, I note this story is now here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079154