Bruce Jensen,I Salute your dad.
cuhulin

From: dxAce
Organization: Just Enough To Make It Happen
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:37:23 -0400
Subject: (OT) NAZI's, Hitler Youth, The Pope et al.

I knew (know) a lot of people in Germany who were forced into the Hitler Youth
and drafted into the German Army in WWII.

I've personally never had a problem with a single one of them and even though
many of them were captured by US forces during the war, I was welcomed by them
all into their homes.

Some of the best times I've ever had. Personally guided tours to a lot of
different places that I'll probably never see again, but I sure was glad to
meet
them all.

The really unfortunate thing is that all veterans of WWII, and those who lived
through it are rapidly departing this life...

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Drakeman, were you stationed in Germany or was this as a civilian? I was
stationed in Bad Kreuznach, 8th Infantry Div MP Company (67-69), tho I never
busted anybody!

Greg

Greg wrote:

From: dxAce
Organization: Just Enough To Make It Happen
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:37:23 -0400
Subject: (OT) NAZI's, Hitler Youth, The Pope et al.

I knew (know) a lot of people in Germany who were forced into the Hitler Youth
and drafted into the German Army in WWII.

I've personally never had a problem with a single one of them and even though
many of them were captured by US forces during the war, I was welcomed by them
all into their homes.

Some of the best times I've ever had. Personally guided tours to a lot of
different places that I'll probably never see again, but I sure was glad to
meet
them all.

The really unfortunate thing is that all veterans of WWII, and those who lived
through it are rapidly departing this life...

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Drakeman, were you stationed in Germany or was this as a civilian?

I was there both in the military and later as a civilian. I lived in Munchen for a
while.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

My eight years older brother was an MP.Years later,he got into
Helicopter Maintnance.(he always was a good mechanic) He and I were in
Vietnam in 1964,his second Tour of Duty in Vietnam following a year in
Germany,1963.He was at Vung Tau,Vietnam.I once caught the Chaplin Run
one Sunday to go visit my brother.He was in R.O.T.C. at Central High
School in Jackson back in the early 1950's.
www.angelfire.com/md2/Ldotvets
cuhulin

I wasen't bitter about my three years in the U.S.Army and I am not
bitter now.It was a Job.
cuhulin

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I wasen't bitter about my three years in the U.S.Army and I am not
bitter now.It was a Job.
cuhulin

How many people did you kill?

onetime,personally,I have never killed anybody before.I worked in
Ammunition Supply in www.114thaviationcompany.com in Vietnam in
1964.I HOPE the Ammunition (Small Arms Ammo on up to Rockets) my
coworkers and myself supplied to our 114th Aviation Company Base Camps
KILLED (KILLED!!!!) many,many,many of the Vietcong! You snotty nose
Mother ****er!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would Gladly (GLADLY!) do
it all over again too!
cuhulin

wrote:
onetime,personally,I have never killed anybody before.I worked in
Ammunition Supply in www.114thaviationcompany.com in Vietnam in
1964.I HOPE the Ammunition (Small Arms Ammo on up to Rockets) my
coworkers and myself supplied to our 114th Aviation Company Base
Camps
KILLED (KILLED!!!!) many,many,many of the Vietcong! You snotty nose
Mother ****er!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would Gladly (GLADLY!)
do
it all over again too!
cuhulin

This is a little unclear - you DID kill someone ("onetime") or you
didn't?

Nevermind.

It does look as though you regret not killing - or knowing that you
killed - people. Let's assume that those weapons you supplied did kill
"many, many, many of the Vietcong", and let us further assume that by
"many" you mean 10.

You cannot, of course, claim any hand in targeting those weapons, and
so the best we can to to guage their effect is to assume they matched
the average effect of the United States over the run of the war.

Simple arithmetic then shows that you would then be responsible for
killing 1000 "Vietcong" - but that's not all. Using gerally accepted
casualty figures you would also be responsible for killing roughly 1800
innocent Vietnamese civillians; and about 13 Americans and one or two
members of other forces (Australian and the like).

There, now. Feel better?

****ing!!!!!!! tesco,tesco food stores in limeyland.onetime,YOU GO TO
HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cuhulin

What constitutes the act of killing in your book. If you are a
navigator who points the way, or the ground crew that loads the
incindiaries does that constitute killing?

Why is the number of kills so important to you.

I think I know the answer, but please enlighten us about the extent of
your wartime experience.