forgiveness of following orders

Do you forgive a soldier for obeying his commander's order to shoot an unarmed mother and child? Well i would for multiple reasons the soldier is obeying a command from a commander. in the military it is a strict rule to obey the commands of your superior and the consequences of disobeying a direct order is death. Knowing this the man who obeyed the order, feared death but also knew that if he were to disobey the order that somebody else would kill the mother and child instead. By knowing this I believe it is justified for him to be forgiven of what he did.