I have to disagree by agreeing, Iceman. Eric Topp was a killer...but he was no murderer. If he was as bad as you say, then you must also include Mush Morton and Dick O'Kane on the list. Or was American 'Unrestricted Submarine Warfare' somehow nicer than German 'Unrestricted Submarine Warfare'? Or was Topp a villain because he fough for the 'wrong' side? Like most soldiers and sailors everywhere, he did his duty as he saw it and most likely believed in his cause-not Hitler's cause, but that of fighting for his homeland.
Buffy Ste. Marie wrote the words, and Donavan made them famous:
He's five foot two, and he's six feet four,
And he fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen;
He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, and Athiest, a Jane,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew;
And he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will
Kill you for me, my friend, he'll kill me for you.
He's Fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
And he's fighting for the U.S.A.
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan,
And he think's he'll put an end to war this way.
He's fighting for Democracy, he's fighting for the Reds,
And he says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.
But without him how could Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
And without him Ceasar would have stood alone.
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.
He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
But his orders come from far away no more;
They come from here and there, and you and me, and brother can't you see
This is not the way we put an end to war?
'The Universal Soldier'-Buffy Ste. Marie
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