Sheepdog Tip of the Day, During Combat tip 172
Death from twenty thousand feet is strangely impersonal and psychologically impotent. But death up close and personal, visiting the manifest intensity of the enemy's Wind of Hate upon its victims, such death can be hideously effective at sapping the will of the enemy and ultimately achieving victory: A squad with a death order entered the house of a prominent community leader and shot him, his wife, his married son, and daughter in law, a male and female servant and their baby. The family cat was strangled, the family dog was clubbed to death, and the goldfish scooped out of the fish bowl and tossed onto the floor. When the communists left, no life remained in the house, a "family unit" had been eliminated.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing
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