as a veteran, does it make you sad?

Question

To see young men and women who think that combat is the ultimate paintball game? They will never (hopefully) know what it's like to stand over a lifeless body, knowing that because of you, his children will never know their father. Something I will never forget.

The thing is, I didn't hate this guy. I didn't know him. I don't even know for sure if he was fireing on us. I just pulled the trigger and he was dead

Answer 1

I'm not a veteran, but my bf is and those statements make me very, very sad. I know that my bf struggles with some of the things he was ordered to do there. He was infantry, so let's just say he had a lot of "hands on" contact with the Iraqi's. I will never forget the day of his first ambush. He called me, and I have never heard him sound the way he did that night. He is a very tough man, keep in mind, and he sounded so small and so scared. He didn't step outside the bounds of his duties, but to really participate in war, not just do the drills had quite an effect on him. Just thinking about what he went through that night, bullets whizzing past his head, running through the field for miles with 3 other young men. He also has the images of his fallen comrades seared into his memory, victims of IEDs. The scars are real for him, but together we are overcoming his pain. He's out of the Army now, and he does not know why the hell even had to go there, especially in light of all that has come out. He was just a patriotic American, who signed up 2 weeks after 9/11 to save the world...and the government took advantage of his willingness to defend our homeland.

Let's just say, I'm more than a little bothered by it.

Answer 2

The only thing worse in combat is having the other person look down on your lifeless body regardless of how they felt about you or the fact that you will never get to see your own children again.

Taking another life is a huge responsibility never to be taken lightly, but the alternative is much worse.

Answer 3

Viet Nam Vet! My Heart aches because we won't end this cycle of death and destuction. Millions upon Millions WWI and WWII, 54,000 Korea, 58,000 Nam I don't have figures for desert storm, Afganistan, Irag, to be Iran, North Korea and who knows what else. Not to mention the strain of the staggering national debt to fund it. Who knows the figures for the other sides of these campaigns? I cannot even comprehend the anquish God must feel, watching us slaughter each other over and over again.

Answer 4

My father is a WWII vet, a Merrill's Marauder, and says "War is great----if you like slogging through mud and killing kids". I don't know the answer -- war will go on as long as people are alive hating each other-------