With all due respect to those that were declared cowards at the time this is just a case of President Blair playing the Political Correctness. It does not effect the men who were accused of cowardice so really there is no point to it. The problem here is that a 21st century govt is applying its morals to an early 20th century event. Sorry my feelings on this is that it should be left alone. What happened was terrible I agree but my view is that it is an attempt by the govt to play on the confidence of the public not out of any good will to those who were shot.

Ross

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With all due respect to those that were declared cowards at the time this is just a case of President Blair playing the Political Correctness. It does not effect the men who were accused of cowardice so really there is no point to it. The problem here is that a 21st century govt is applying its morals to an early 20th century event. Sorry my feelings on this is that it should be left alone. What happened was terrible I agree but my view is that it is an attempt by the govt to play on the confidence of the public not out of any good will to those who were shot.

Ross

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I agree it should have been left alone, where will it end. Also spare a thought for the poor barstards who had to carry out the firing squad, you now condem them to being crimminals!

I think it was done for the families of the executed, and obviously not for the men themselves -- since it's too late. The men in the firing squads, as in all military firing squads, will remain anonymous, their names not in any records. So even if it was a criminal act -- which it isn't -- they won't have any stains. If they aren't dead by now too. The executions were legitimate under military law at the time, so the executioners aren't criminals. Remember, the condemned have now been pardoned, not declared innocent. Only the guilty can be pardoned. Innocent are absolved.

They might remain anonymous to military records, but i can assure you they and their families know about it.
I can remember my grandfather telling me one of the hardest things he has ever had to do in his life, was commanding a firing squad.

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They might remain anonymous to military records, but i can assure you they and their families know about it.
I can remember my grandfather telling me one of the hardest things he has ever had to do in his life, was commanding a firing squad.

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If they are alive, they might remember it, but I doubt their families do. A legitimate military order carries no shame. I have twice been on firing squads and it wasn't tougher than anything else I've done as a soldier. And as I said, the executed haven't been declared innocent, just pardoned. So the order was legit, and still is.