shot for cowardice, having their names put where they should have been all along.
all these men went through hell and they are being honered along side their comrades.
Someone must have seen sense at last.
2007-02-19 12:22:33 · 8 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Yes I think it was a great idea. What ever they may or may not have done time has moved on it is only right and fitting they are pardoned.
I don't care about the odd post re a relative was in the trenches for four years and he never ran away etc. It's time this of thing was put behind us. My Great Uncle is buried in Belgium died from wounds in 1918.
Executing those poor men was terrible. We will never know what they must of gone through, what fear they must have had being shelled for hours at a time with death all around them. Never forget everyone has a breaking point.
2007-02-20 06:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Roaming free 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about time those poor men got some recognition. Unfortunately, before WW1, there hardly *was* a profession of psychiatry, and people definitely didn't know what post-traumatic stress syndrome was. In that way, those poor shell-shocked soldiers--who went so bravely into battle and survived horrors we can barely imagine--helped us by helping make psychiatry a legitimate medical profession so that we can better understand soldiers nowadays.
ETA: Shell shock doesn't necessarily mean men ran away. Many just... shut down.
2007-02-19 12:28:08 · answer #2 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I agree, there are a couple of reasons for their actions, one of which is a medical one called Fight or flight which the person has absolutely no control over. The second is a mental health issue called stress fatigue, which again they have no control over.
They still went to war, they still did what many others did not do. To label them as cowards is ridiculous and to shoot them for it is barbaric.
2007-02-20 08:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by Baby 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In most cases it was absolutely the right thing to do.
I presume that someone was the Secretary of State for Defence.
2007-02-20 09:41:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes .Unfortunately at the time an ignorance of physciatric knowledge failed to help these men it is right and fair that in these enlightened times they be acknowledged and their loss regreted.
2007-02-20 03:47:38 · answer #5 · answered by frankturk50 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No other man or woman can judge another's actions in the face of horror and the moral outrage of viceral death surrounding it without having survived it themselves. You haven't earned the right! Peace be to all who survived such Hell!
2007-02-19 12:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by Point36 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
My great grandfather was in the trenches for 4 years in the first world war and he never ran away.
2007-02-19 12:27:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yeah its good, but its sad to see that theres only a handful alive today...
2007-02-19 12:29:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋