Re: Obstacles
From: jatkins6@i... (John Atkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 06:43:46 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Obstacles
You wrote: 
>XXX I think I heard something about the Commander of the Para Reg 
>    shot down while under a flag of truce.   It seems his men took
>    that as a personal insult and a fight to the death announcement
>    by the Argentines.   JTL  XXX
By custom, firing on a sign of truce is considered a no-quarter 
announcement.  In other words, no prisioners will be taken by either 
side.  I'd cap some genius that popped someone under a flag of truce, 
too.
John M. Atkinson