Commenter Salacious Crumb suggested this link of Israeli soldiers’ trophy pictures that have appeared on Facebook.
They’re appalling but not surprising. If Facebook existed in 1945, we’d be treated to pictures of some of our grandparents posing with Japanese and German dead. If Twitter existed in 1876, Lakota and Cheyenne warriors would have been tweeting coup. When you unleash the terrible, fearsome and tragic thing that is war, it brings out the worst in some of the teenagers who fight it.