From: (ArtKramr)
Date: 1/10/2004 2:19 PM Central Standard Time
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Subject: The nature of military justice.
From: (Peter Stickney)
Date: 1/10/04 11:56 AM Pacific Standard Time

seems that when you're brining up Pvt. Slovik as an example,
you're, perhaps, looking at it from the wrong side. The controversy
in Slovik's case wasn't the verdict - He did what he did - but the
sentence. That's really a whole 'nother can of worms, just as it is
today in civilian courts.

What are your thoughts on the verdict?


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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If memory serves the death penalty for Slovik was supposed to be used as an
example. Too many men were going over the hill after Paris was liberated. I
don't believe the execution was ever publicised so it had no effect. His wife
was not officially told how he actually died until 10 years later.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired