[The Urban Sombrero]

I don't know that he committed war crimes and neither do you. Sometimes we hang a sentence on somebody for political reasons and so on. But let's say he is guilty as you say. We're still talking about one guy out of thousands.

Actually, we did NOT hang sentence upon him for political reasons. When a nation asks a man to risk his life in service of country, I understand the deep reluctance to put him/her on trial for acts carried out during that service. It also explains why juries are reluctant to convict police officers.

If your reasoning is that no one but General Ewell knows whether or not he committed war crimes, you are discounting a tremendous amount of eyewitness testimony, Vietnamese and American. Based on this testimony, and other data provided by the Pentagon, were I on a jury "beyond a reasonable doubt" would have been established.