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...ammunition. Field officers operate with a great deal of independence from the political leadership and think little of overriding the high command's orders when they are inclined to do so. Many soldiers have the same attitude toward their officers as the officers do toward the politicians. A frontline colonel admitted he commands only as long as the men listen to him. "I am willing to listen," says a fighter, "but I decide...
...story told by an Israeli army colonel while driving through blinding sunlight from the Dead Sea to the Jordan River...
...colonel's parents lost seven children in the Nazi death camps. But the parents survived. After the war they made their way to Israel, where they conceived a son (the colonel), whom they called their "miracle child." Though they doted on him and loved him dearly (as may be imagined), they sent him off at an early age to be raised on a kibbutz -- away from his parents. For the Holocaust, the mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory...
...evidence says Salvadoran soldiers killed tens of thousands of people during the 12-year civil war. Yet only one senior military officer has ever been convicted in a human-rights case. Under the new amnesty law, even that won't stick. The government has released Colonel Guillermo Benavides, previously sentenced to 30 years for the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Amnesty will also prevent future trials for those accused of wartime excesses, including Defense Minister Rene Emilio Ponce, accused of planning the murders...
...another harsh stone room with gray video monitors on which scenes of horror are narrated by offstage voices. German soldiers surround a hospital and throw newborn babies out of the upper windows. Men and women stripped of even artificial limbs go to the gas chamber while an avuncular SS colonel insists they will not be harmed. At the exit, the backlighted words of Simon Wiesenthal offer the museum's justification for re- creating such pain: ONLY KNOW THAT HOPE LIVES WHEN PEOPLE REMEMBER...