Consider the story of Henry Tandey, a British infantryman in the Duke of Wellington Regiment in the First World
mbt sport. On September 28, 1918, Tandey participated in an attack against enemy trenches near the small French
town of Marcoing. The British carried the day, and as they advanced, Tandey Cautiously peered into a trench. He
saw an enemy soldier, a corporal, lying bleeding on the ground. It would have been easy for Tandey to finish
off his enemy, as he had killed many that day; Tandey had played an heroic role in the battle and later was
ambt sportded the Victoria Cross, the highest mbt sporttime decoration, for his great courage. But he felt it
was wrong to shoot an injured man, and he spared the corporal’s life.
In 1940, during the Nazi bombardment of Coventry, when Tandey worked as a security guard at the Triumph
automobile factory, he gnashed his teeth. “Had I known what that corporal was going to become! God knows how
sad I am that I spared him.” The corporal was Adolf Hitler. Tandey’s human gesture had led to the deaths of
millions of people and, in a bitter irony of military destiny, had placed his own life at the mercy of the
monster whose life he could have taken.
Murder is surely evil, yet every reasonable person will agree that the cause of good would have been greatly
advanced if Henry Tandey had killed Hitler in that trench. History abounds with examples of good actions
furthering the cause of evil…
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