Originally Posted by RichieLion

It wasn't the Marines finest hour, to be sure. But this is not a cotillion, as a great general has said. If you want a polite war use only air power and then go to sleep in clean white sheets afterwards. These marines on the ground there have witnessed all kinds of atrocities first hand, and understandably have a different mindset from those here judging them from the comfort of their Lazy Boy recliners.

At most an Article 15 is in order and a reprimand. I can walk into any funeral home in this country and do what these marines did and not face the consequences that some are demanding toward these young men we put in harm's way.