...over at Counterpunch.
I followed the link over to Upworthy and looked at all the faces and whether or not there was an agenda or a bias or trick lighting involved, the general observation made still strikes me as likely to be true and accurate:
Excerpt:
For the ordinary soldier, experience of combat is unadulterated by any comforting reflections that the butchery is required in the furtherance of a just cause, and actions he would ordinarily look upon with disgust he is now encouraged to view as the height of valour. Paul Fussell, an American officer during WW2 and later a famous professor of literature, recorded that as an unblooded soldier the effect of stumbling upon a clearing strewn with the corpses of German soldiers was to suddenly deprive him of his ‘adolescent illusions’, instilling an abrupt realisation that: ‘I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just.’ Wryly commenting on the hellish conditions his platoon encountered during their advance he noted: ‘Getting it over was our sole motive. Yes, we knew about the Jews. But our skins seemed to us more valuable at the time.’
Link (Long but worth a read):
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/17/russia-the-west-and-world-war-ii/
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