[andy58-in-nh]

I agree with you about how this issue ought to be resolved. I would certainly not favor punishing the Marines involved.

As long as they are made to understand the nature of the twin lightning bolt symbol in relation to American history and the Marine Corps' own brave contributions to keeping America free from tyranny, I think they will be properly chastened.

I sometimes forget that I am now of an older generation for whom Nazism and its symbols were of far more recent vintage when I was a young man. Those of us who were born in the '40s and '50s knew those symbols implicitly as well as what they represented. When I was a kid and we played war games (with actual toy guns, Heaven forbid!), we often pretended to fight the Germans and Japanese, as our fathers had.

[Wallace T.]

This media storm is even more stupid than the one based on a video purportedly showing Marines urinating on dead terrorists. The Marines in question were likely born in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and World War II and its symbols are not known among this generation. (To be fair, the nitwits wearing Che Guevara T-shirts are also ignorant of history.)