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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.
There is no honor in war. Only brutality and destruction. There is only survival and being dead.
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