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Originally posted by Mean Mr. Mustard+May 28 2005, 01:10 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mean Mr. Mustard @ May 28 2005, 01:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-MarchHare@May 27 2005, 05:03 PM
Nice gesture by the Americans, but do you know what would have been a better tribute? Giving the pilots involved a real punishment rather than a slap on the wrist.
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If you don't mind me asking, but why? To get a chunk of skin, to make the families feel as though someone has been punished. He will never fly again. That is punishment in itself in my opinion. To put someone in prison (and not a nice federal prison) for a mistake made in wartime would be wrong, and to a certain extent inhuman. [/b][/quote]
I see your point, but from everything I've read on the incident he disobeyed a direct order not to drop ordinance. If that's the case, he deserves to go to prison. I'm sure he wasn't intent on killing Canadian soldiers with his actions, but orders are followed for a reason.