anon(631531)
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Yes, I'm sure I would have a different viewpoint as an infantryman. How much different, I'm not sure. I re-read the story of the Christmas Truce in WWI on its 100 year anniversary a couple months ago and it shows that even enemy combatants have an interesting form of human compassion. That is another reason why the Vietnam experience is dramatically different from a terrorist situation. I don't think you will ever see a terrorist and a targeted civilian break out a holiday football game.
I've heard of the Christmas Truce, in WW1. I don't know about the German side, but weren't the Brits who participated in that "truce" later disciplined by their own officers?