With the utmost respect for your points, I am going to make what I think is a fair assumption that you don’t have a lot of military experience. If I may, a lieutenant ( and I was one) is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to hierarchy of rank. While he- and I- had authority over all enlisted, you honestly aren’t considered “high ranking” until you got a bird colonel, or an O-6. Even that is relative, in that as someone who worked at the Pentagon, an O-6 was a peon when two-star generals got coffee for a four-star. You hear my humor. Still, if we’re going to write about a military person, it serves to do our research on those of us who serve. What these cretins did was as unforgivable as treating Black WWI war heroes as pieces of shit when they fought hard for their country. Point taken, and believe me, I am pissed royally about this incident. Thanks for your article.