'White Feather' The Marine Sniper Who Shot through an Enemy’s own Rifle Scope

Legend for sure.

Colonel, Reading your synopses on Sgt. Hathcock evokes my retrograde memories of El Cid, the Spanish knight who was also the master of the battlefield. His enemies were not the Vietcong or NVA but Moors whom he consistently defeated in the Reconquista, the Spanish campaign to expel them from the Iberian peninsula. Both El Cid and Sgt. Hathcock like Audie Murphy, Sgt. York and Marine Sgt. John Basilone (KIA at Iwo Jima) should be prominent in the annals of military history and accorded undiluted adulation for their valorous deeds. The world will continue to need warriors like Hathcock and El Cid as long as inhumane forces like Islamic fascism, and secular dictatorial regimes exists. As a Vietnam veteran my only regret is that Hathcock did not kill more than the 93 NVA and Vietcong he was credited with shooting. Eugene Sledge, the author of "With the Old Breed" articulated similar sentiments as a Marine who fought in the Island hopping campaign in the Pacific Theatre of Operations in WWII. He lamented the fact that he did not kill more Japanese soldiers whom he thought deserved to be slaughtered like rabid dogs. Finally, my epistemological attempts to discern historical truths as personified by leaders who have shaped world history like Jesus, Washington, Darwin, Grant, FDR, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Bin Laden, and many other personages whether they are good or evil has provided me with a comprehensive understanding of the historical trajectory of the vicissitudes of modern life. My respect for the late Sgt. Hathcock is illimitable and he will remain one of the most prominent subjects in my pantheon of American war heroes. SPC Benjamin