Be a man and stand by your action [1]
Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 13:16. Updated on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:22.
Editor,
I would like to respond to the Utah Palangi Joe Smith.
Joe, the Navy Squids need a lesson.
Excuses, Excuses, please tell the Demos, and everyone else who was involved get their tail out of their behind and own-up to their part of Black Thursday.
We are trying to teach our kids responsibility for their actions. But the Navy is saying, blame it on Mom and Dad, blame your grandparents and by all means blame Adam and Eve for if this is all happening because of their transgression.
In the United States Marine Corps, under the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice). The Marine that pulled the trigger and killed a non-combatant civilian in Iraq is held Responsible for the crime. His immediate senior officers and staff NCO's will be investigated as to what they may have done to contribute to this Marine's action. No one will blame the maker of the weapons, not President Bush who sent them to Iraq and god knows he cannot blame his mother who has nothing to do with his action.
The whole idea behind this is to hold everyone responsible for their own actions.
Captain Medina and Lieutenant Kelly were prosecuted for the massacre in Mi Lai, Vietnam Nam in 1968 because they were the senior officers on the ground giving out the orders. Well, if they were in the Navy like Joe Smith, they could have blamed the Commandant of the Marines or the President of the United States who sent the troops to Viet Nam.
To err is to be Human, To forgive is Divine. Unfortunately, none of these are acceptable Marine Corps Policy.
Dennis Pulu
dpulu [at] samoatelco [dot] com