Reply #8: I saw that photo in 1971 when I was 10 years old. Learned a lot from it.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

I also read first-hand accounts of hand to hand combat in letters that GIs wrote home to friends.

This contributed to my understanding of human beings thrust by circumstance into inhumane situations. Meanwhile, my relatives argued about the value of containing communism during family gatherings.

Since I had seen photos of Nazi concentration camp victims when I was six years old, learning that Americans were just as capable of atrocities gave me insight into the way indoctrination makes good people do bad things to belong to a group.

Horrible photos should be mandatory education for children, not something to hide from them.

Justice is a universal theme of history that depends on preventing dehumanization...and decapitation.