Sixty Year old Soldiers

Sixty Year old Soldiers

fiction
edward w pritchard

Would Sixty year old soldiers be fair and merciful with a fallen enemy. After a lifetime of suffering and injustice of the strong against the weak; how would an army of sixty year old men treat the aggressors of an opposing force in defeat?

It's always presented as a last ditch effort when necessity requires old men to serve in battle. The young are dead and the enemy are still attacking.

Would an army of sixty year old men be without mercy, and without moral compunction to doers of evil. Perhaps the old men would be used to do the terrible work of the retribution of justice. Without reason or legality, pursuing closure in time of turmoil, old soldiers would lethally cleanse and terminate to prepare the local environment for the next renewal.