Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.
delial@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
If you’re really gung-ho about it, go and ask a Veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan about it and see what they think. If anyone will know about it they will.
My uncle that served in Iraq still wakes up screaming in the night. He’s a shell of the man he used to be. Another vet my age I knew was absolutely erratic after serving. He couldn’t hold a job and ended up homeless and assaulted someone for their spot under a bridge.
My whole family bears the scars of the PTSD from what my grandfather saw from WWII. He also woke up screaming for years afterward.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I had an old buddy who served in Vietnam. One time I asked him what it was like to kill someone. I’ll never forget his answer.
“You know, when you’ve got your rifle trained on somebody, there for a split second you’ve got the power of God in your hands. You get to decide if that person lives or dies. Nobody should have that kind of power. I only wish I had known that before I had done things that I couldn’t undo.”
He said he still had nightmares all the time, even 45 years later.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Do you think any kind of redemption can be palpably experienced by such folk?
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 6 hours ago
The advice I give is, be the adult you wish you had when you were young.