Thanks for linking me to this post. While I have no dealings with people who consider themselves on the "warrior" path, it does remind me that people in general just don't get what it is like to be in battle. I plan to specialize in studying WWI in grad school and I've already read memoirs, stories and poems written by the men who fought in the war and...I imagine even those words fail to describe how horrible the conditions they had deal with were.
There's so much more I could say, but I don't want to write an essay in your comments.
I imagine even those words fail to describe how horrible the conditions they had deal with were.
I have a friend who is a two-tour Vietnam vet, and he's so profoundly affected by it that you can't try to wake him (not that you need to, since he wakes up at 5am like clockwork) without risking getting put in a sleeper hold before you knew what hit you.
There's also a couple of people I know of through close friends or family members who, for years, wouldn't even talk about their experiences in the wars they were in. When they finally did, often decades later, it still brought them to tears.
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on 2011-05-22 06:18 pm (UTC)There's so much more I could say, but I don't want to write an essay in your comments.
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on 2011-05-23 04:48 pm (UTC)I have a friend who is a two-tour Vietnam vet, and he's so profoundly affected by it that you can't try to wake him (not that you need to, since he wakes up at 5am like clockwork) without risking getting put in a sleeper hold before you knew what hit you.
There's also a couple of people I know of through close friends or family members who, for years, wouldn't even talk about their experiences in the wars they were in. When they finally did, often decades later, it still brought them to tears.