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Marine action was insulting

The photograph of U.S. Marines posing in front of a Nazi SS rune flag in Afghanistan (Feb. 10) is an obscenity and an insult to American soldiers who fought the SS to the death in Europe.

Is there no one in the Marine chain of command who is aware of the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945? Is there no one in the Marine chain of command who is aware of the millions of military and civilian deaths caused by the Waffen and Death Heads SS? Do the Marines realize that, if they had displayed that horrible flag after Malmedy, U.S. soldiers would have killed them – no prisoners, no exceptions?

I believe that senior NCOs and junior officers should be punished severely for this violation of American arms. Perhaps we should begin to teach history again.

Louis D. Zenowich

Sagle, Idaho

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