[Rick Lee]

Moral level is identical? Uh huh.

When I was too young to rent a car in Europe, I often hitchiked from Cologne to Halle to visit friends. Several times I was picked up by elderly couples, who, upon learning I was an American, had nothing but great things to say. I have met countless German men who spent time as POW's in camps on US soil and every single one of them, without exception, said it was the best they had ever lived up to that time.

Ask any American who made it through the Bataan Death March and the subsequent imprisonment if the moral level was identical.