Via Profatus Veritas comes the story of a solider who became a conscientious objector in his Army unit following the deaths of noncombatants: Around five years after the last time I saw him, Wayne’s infantry unit deployed to Iraq. Having been in the Army for a couple of years already, his father reports that he was “gung-ho” about the Army life, even in a combat zone. Wayne’s unit assaulted a building thought to contain “insurgents,” and air support was called in from an AC-130 gunship. After the target was strafed from the air with 155 mm shells and 30 mm … Continue reading The Story of a Remorseful Soldier