If youre lucky to live youll have your whole life to hate the monster you became

I wouldn't hate myself for it

I know another older guy who was a navy seal guy in vietnam, he's a guy I work withs grandfather

If you arrent willing to kill, then you'll die in war

He seems a little less ashamed of what he's done, he's not ready to talk about it all the time, but his experiences in the war definitely stayed with him.

Guy I work with said he loves watching action movies with his grandfather, because grandpa will breakdown what is bullshit and what isn't

If you're forced to go into battle, then you have to play the role you are given and live with it

If you don't follow the role, you will die

a man can kill and kill again but he is going to come home and have some thoughts

The example he gave was Road House, when he rips that guys throat out he said "there's no way someone could do that." He said he looked at his grandfather who had a smile and just nodded "oh yeah."

I'd rather not have to kill anybody if I could avoid it.

If a somebitch comes at me trying to kill me, I'll be damned if I just let him get away with it.

Ptsd is the big war trauma @M4Gunner

most war heroes would rather solve problems with words

And I already got ptsd

And if a somebitch comes at my family, I'll also be damned if I can sleep without getting him.

I can't get double ptsd

so do i, do you not think it can be made worse?

Meh

It's almost like they understand that wars are more effectively fought with words

that diplomacy should be the first attempt to resolve an issue

It is completely gone at this point, I only got it on paper

But some people can't be reasoned with.

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Some people are just assholes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3QmLwCJ-F0

I often think about America's stalled entry into world war two.

Could we have gotten involved sooner and stopped Hitler

Would we have been effective at keeping Hitler from taking France

It's not like we didn't know what he was up to in the early thirties.

Best way to deal with harsh conditions:
Taoism(the philosophy, not the religious mumbo jumbo)

I havent met almost any veteran that wasnt deeply troubled by what they had to do.

Nothing is right and nothing is wrong

I take most eastern "religions" as philsophy

Things just are

Neither good nor bad, it's all about perception

To me having a folder full of regular nintendo games I can play at anytime, that means something to me

im not into the tao

to some other guys, that's boring and lame

Perceptions are illutions

Everything is an illusion.