I strongly encourage my fellow Utahns to engage their representatives to find the truth about allegations of war crimes involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Admiral Frank Miller, and Navy SEAL Team Six.
The allegations claim Secretary Hegseth ordered the military to kill two survivors of a destroyed speedboat on Sept. 2. The administration has claimed the boat was carrying drugs. It has presented no evidence for that claim.
I served for twenty-three years as a soldier. I was a commissioned officer. Infantry. Airborne. A troop commander. We were trained — over and over — that defenseless enemies were not to be harmed, and that any harm to them would be a crime.
An interesting parallel: In November of 1945, Kapitänleutnant Heinz Wilhelm Eck — a Nazi U-boat commander — and two of his subordinates were executed for killing defenseless sailors in the water. It was a crime then; it’s a crime now.
I encourage my fellow citizens to reach out and demand the truth.
Kurt Weiland, Bountiful
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