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...minutes' notice the previous afternoon and loaded onto a plane. Only after they were airborne did a general tell them that they were to cover the surrender and that the story was off the record until the Allied governments announced it. "I therefore pledge . . . you on your honor," he said...
This does not make the 18-year-old who died defending the Nazi regime a criminal. Nor does it lessen the grief of his mother. But it does lessen the honor due him from the President of the United States. Even among the dead, we are required to make distinctions. It is not just grotesquely wrong to say, as the President said last week, that German soldiers are as much victims as those whom the Germans tortured and murdered. There is also a distinction to be drawn between Hitler's soldiers and the Kaiser's. Mitterrand's choice of Verdun...
...Jews, a camp; for Kohl, Bitburg; and for American vets, perhaps a sonorous speech. The picture now contains all the right elements. But the elements do not sit well on the canvas. They mock one another. What can it mean to honor the murdered if one also honors the murderers and their Praetorian Guard? This is photo opportunity morality, and so transparent that it will convince no one, offend everyone...
...bombing raid you can lose your life," said retired Air Force Major General Richard Collins, a former Viet Nam combat pilot. "All you can lose in this courtroom is your reputation." But the two-star general's honor remained intact last week, when a Florida jury acquitted him on federal charges of embezzling money from a secret military fund that he administered in 1975-78. The Justice Department had accused Collins, 55, of tampering with the interest on $450,000 in U.S. Government money while he transferred the sum from one Swiss bank account to another. The jury rejected...
...honor complements his All-New England team and First Team All-ECAC selections...