SBAND Seminar Materials 2013 Free Ethics: Echoes of War The Combat Veteran | Page 13

  The
 war
 has
 destroyed
 with
 a
 hand
 more
 desolating
 than
 the
 Black
 Death
 or
  the
 most
 terrible
 plagues
 of
 history.

 But
 its
 consequences
 do
 not
 end
 with
  destruction.

 The
 people
 who
 have
 taken
 serious
 part
 in
 it
 are
 not
 the
 same
  people
 as
 those
 who
 went
 into
 it.
 .
 .
 .

 They
 are
 changed
 peoples.

 They
 have
  passed
 through
 an
 experience
 which
 has
 altered
 habits,
 temper,
 outlook,
 in
  five
 years,
 more
 than
 fifty
 years
 of
 ordinary
 life
 would
 have
 altered
 them.

  Some
 of
 the
 consequences
 of
 that
 experience
 are
 obviously
 bad.

 The
  epidemic
 of
 crimes
 of
 violence
 is
 the
 natural
 sequel
 of
 war,
 for
 men
 learn
 in
  that
 school
 to
 think
 little
 of
 life.

 The
 same
 increase
 of
 crime
 of
 this
 kind
  followed
 the
 Napoleonic
 Wars
 both
 here
 and
 in
 France.46

  In
 the
 United
 States,
 post-­?WWI
 veteran-­?committed
 crimes
 were
 also
 a
 cause
 for

grave
 concern.

 The
 President
 of
 the
 Institute
 of
 Criminal
 Law
 and
 Criminology,
 in
 his
  annual
 address
 in
 1919,
 stated:

  Last
 year
 saw
 the
 ending
 of
 the
 War.

 From
 England
 to
 France,
 and
 in
 our
  own
 country,
 statistics
 have
 been
 gathered
 which
 show
 that
 serious
 crime,
  which
 had
 been
 on
 the
 decrease
 during
 the
 period
 of
 the
 War
 was
 again
  stalking
 in
 the
 foreground.
 .
 .
 .
 The
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