[Terror] Let 'Em Alone: Besides, They're Cannon Fodder Anyway

This is old news, the strafing of a school in Little Egg, New Jersey by a National Guard F-16 fighter jet, but this quote stuck in my head:
Let 'em alone; they're over there putting their lives on the line for us," Hickman said as he prepared to hunt deer in Bass River, near the edge of the range. "That guy (the pilot) probably feels so bad about this. He's probably going to get sent overseas and he might not even come back. As long as no one got hurt, this whole thing should just be forgotten."