Make You Proud To Be An American?

[Jermyn Davidson]

I am proud to be an American and this story does make me proud.

It would have been a knee-jerk, emotion-based response to issue the fallen Soldiers in this case a Purple Heart.

They shouldn't have died. To call it a tragedy would be a misnomer. However, they didn't earn Purple Hearts in their deaths.

Furthermore, it would indicate that Major's guilt before his trial which he is legally entitled to receive.

Then, honoring the dead with Purple Hearts could in a twisted way give credence to this Major's demented way of thinking.

He wasn't at war with his comrades and any ridicule he may have experienced, he had to know that would happen BEFORE he joined the Army. That doesn't make it right to respond the way he did, obviously. In fact, it indicts him for responding the way he did. If he uses the taunts and verbal abuse he experienced as a defense, he'll be simply strengthening his motive to respond in the twisted way he did.

I don't think he'll get the death penalty.
I'd sentence him to 100 years of hard labor.
To sentence him to death would make a hero out of him, in at least in the eyes of some idiots.