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Originally Posted by DirtyHarry3033
Imagine being in a crippled boat, grounded 100 feet below crush depth - it's holding together - but just barely. Batteries running out, oxygen running out, destroyers storming around all over the place, and maybe hours to think about what's going to happen to you, and how you're never going to see your family again...
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Dont forget the putrid smell of men who havent bathed in a while, the choking fumes of the batteries as they break and the acid mixes with the saltwater, the lights flickering on or off or staying off totally and leaving the men in the dark, the sound of the steel plates compressing under the pressure, the dreaded conculsion that they will die but cannot do anything about it.
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At least for the merchantmen, it was quick and sudden and unexpected I imagine. And some had at least a chance to survive. When a u-boat's hull is crushed at 700 feet, no one survives.
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Dont forget that it takes a sub some time to reach crush depth. Also the crew cannot do anything but wait for that moment when a plate or weld finally breaks and the sea implodes inward to crush them.
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OK, so history tells us they were the "bad guys", but the truth is, they were patriotic soldiers doing their duty for their country, at the almost certain cost of their own lives. Whether they were right or wrong, I have a tremendous amount of respect for those men.
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War doesnt decide who is right, it only decides who is left.
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And finally, let's think about the terrible price paid by anyone involved in a war - no matter what side they're on, no matter whether they're actually fighting in it or not. Just think of Dresden, or London, or Hiroshima, or Stalingrad - 100's of thousands killed, and most non-combatants...
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There is nothing more inhuman than war. All who are engaged in war suffer but its human nature to kill if only for sport but for war.
You can basically break
war down to one simple sentence.
"Somebody wants something someone else has"
Take any war, and you can see that this sentence works 99.9% of the time.