The Bad with the Good

The War Department released some statistics last week on the personal conduct of U.S. soldiers, and they were shockers. Items:

P:Since war began, 101 have been executed for murder or rape (47 for murder. 43 for rape, eleven for both murder and rape).

P:One man was executed for desertion under fire. He was the first U.S. soldier to be executed since the Civil War for a purely military offense.

P:More than 200 others were condemned to death, but had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment or less.

P:A total of 33,519 have been under guard in the U.S. and overseas for various offenses.

Navy Department statistics were not quite so surprising. Some 22,000 have been confined. Executions of Navy men. Marines, Coast Guardsmen: none.

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