Status Updates From The Execution of Private Sl...

"Slovik had done a good job with the Canadians: cooking potato pancakes, helping people attend funerals, dispensing [cigarettes] to weary German pilots. No doubt about it: Eddie Slovik was a damn goodhearted guy, do anything in the world for you. Anything, that is, except the duty to which he had been assigned." I am appreciating how Huie builds the world and fills in the context of Slovik's life & eventual death.

"The will of a so-called free nation like the United States is determined and executed by many different agencies and persons. Sometimes the community will be what a policeman says it is. Sometimes it's what a tax collector says it is. Or what the head of a senatorial investigating committee says it is. Or what the President says it is. Or what the nine members of the Supreme Court say it is."

ترجمه بسیار بد. نصفه رهاش کردم.

ایالات متحده سرباز اسلوویک را، به دلیل اجتناب از انجام وظیفۀ سربازی با تفنگ و سرنیزه، می‌کشد؛ به دلیل شانه خالی کردن از انجام وظیفۀ خطرناک جنگیدن با دشمن؛ و از سال ۱۸۶۴ او تنها امریکایی است که به دلیل چنین جرمی اعدام می‌شود.