Unfair Punishment In World War I

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I believe that most of these men should not be punished for taking action in what they believe in, or at least punished to the extent that they had been. I think that they should have gotten treated how they did because in one case a man just wanted equal rights, there was no harm done and no one was being affected by this man’s actions. Also, one man had been harshly punished for simply not wanting to go and help in the war and because he refused, he was treated harshly. In the last case, this man was a spy, and this was the one case where I don’t think that there was any protests that had any unfair punishments.

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