Lies during wartime.
In: New York Times Magazine, 2011-03-27, S. 16
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As an infantry sergeant during World War II, I wrote about 100 letters to wives and parents of soldiers in my unit who died in action. No matter if they died by friendly fire or cowering in their holes, in my letters they were all killed while heroically charging the enemy. One was killed by a French farmer for raping his daughter. To his parents, he, too, died a hero. Today such lies would not be tolerated. Did I do wrong? NAME WITHHELD Your attempt to comfort those families in their bottomless grief reflects a deeply ethical impulse. But recasting every wartime death as a moment of battlefield glory is a dangerous undertaking. It corrupts the historical record and incorrectly presumes to know what's best for the fallen soldiers' parents. Some might prefer your comforting fiction. Others would want the truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Lies during wartime.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Kaminer, Ariel |
Zeitschrift: | New York Times Magazine, 2011-03-27, S. 16 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Medientyp: | serialPeriodical |
ISSN: | 0028-7822 (print) |
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