re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Now, now, I went to the range with my daughter just last week. Of course, she’s 38 and an Air Force veteran.

Coincidentally, I was just reading about Nazi general Helmuth Weidling, who was in command in Berlin during the final battle in 1945.

In the middle of the Battle of Berlin, the leader of the Hitler Youth, Artur Axmann, visited Weidling’s headquarters and told him that the youngsters of the Hitler Youth were ready to fight and were even now manning the roads in the 56th rear. Weidling was so enraged that for a moment he became almost inarticulate. He told Axmann, “You cannot sacrifice these children for a cause that is already lost. I will not use them and I demand that the order sending these children into battle be rescinded”.

Weidling was a full-on war criminal (convicted of deliberately spreading typhus among Soviet civilians) but even he thought arming children was an evil practice.