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Originally Posted by Dueller
Oh, don't get me wrong. I know he did it honorably and in the service of his country and his fellow soldiers. And his own survival. When he came home on a stretcher after his last tour in 'nam, I know he spoke of it on a limited basis to my mother as she shared with me his somber mood was likely as a partial result of a young NCO that he had taken under his wing, barely older than me, dieing in the firefight he was wounded in.
I was too young to serve in 'nam and too old during the Gulf war...so men of my generation never witnessed the horror of war first hand.
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There is no honor in war. Only brutality and destruction. There is only survival and being dead.