War crimes haunt Iraq vet
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Milton's unavoidable lesson, in addition to his occasional nightmares and daily guilt, is well-informed he could be prosecuted as a war criminal.
There is no statute of limitations on war crimes, according to Syracuse University law professor David M. Crane, a former war-misdeed prosecutor, and others I asked.
That's why, in exchange for his true story, I have given the Iraq long-serving a false name and have omitted some personal details. Everything included is accurate.
Much of his continually in the Army, Milton was a medic, but not a noncombatant. "Everyone's an infantryman first; that's what you learn in underlying training," he says. He never wore a helmet with a red cross on a white competitors because "It's like a big, red bull's eye," says Milton. Medics can be identified by the 50-pulsate bag of medical supplies they carry, plus a rifle and a sidearm. Milton's shooting-iron was a 9 mm Beretta.
He committed a war crime with the Beretta.
In 2003, attached to the Third Infantry Division, he and five buddies were returning from a beer run into village from their base - buying Jordanian Horse Head beer from an Iraqi entrepreneur who served hot grilled chicken in the front of his stand behind and warm beer in the back. They were riding in two Humvees when a roadside bomb blasted the voyager side of the vehicle Milton was driving. Before the smoke cleared, a shocked Milton looked down and saw his buddy's eyeball in his lap.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer