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Sullivan Ballou decapitation - WW2 comments...

Hi Richard -

In his 1956 book, Virgil Carrington Jones describes his visit to the site (supposedly identfied by Manassas NMP historians) along with a WW2 vet.

According to Jones, the WW2 vet claimed that such desecrations were performed on dead Japanese soldiers from time to time by American forces.

I guess such actions are part of "the war thang".....must be in human nature or something....

Damn....guess "Uncle Billy" was right, war IS all hell....!!!

y.v.o.s.,

Kenneth Byrd

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