Originally Posted by wrongtime
Just to try to maintain fairness: the man Col. Askins wrote of killing in Vietnam was an enemy soldier.


Ahem......enemy soliders? Askins wasn't in the military at the time, he was on a hunting trip. Furthermore, the Viet Nam war was several years away. They weren't enemy soldiers to Askins or any other American at the time. By the way, Askins killed more than one person in Viet Nam. Shot a group of folks with his Savage 99 and then shot some poor donk who walked up to him with his 44 Magnum.

Originally Posted by wrongtime
The fellow peace officers he fired on had not identified themselves as such and appeared to be an armed threat to Askins.


That must be why he was embarrased he missed those folks, huh?

Originally Posted by wrongtime
The sleeping American Askins fired on in the desert was thought to be a smuggler and appeared to have a carbine in his hands.


It was a sleeping civilian with a shovel in his hand. When Askins made a little noise and the guy sat up, Askins tried to blow his head off. He missed, and was upset that he had. The only thing that civilian did wrong was sleep in the general area of Askins. Askins would have killed him and not thought twice about it.

Brian.



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