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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
My oldest son, an advanced two tour sniper, hates when people thank him. He killed lots of people. He does not talk about it. The only bits about it I have heard is when we drink together, even then very little. He does not talk about it. Killing people, even bad people is something that fucks with your brain. We are lucky he is still level headed. I tell him people are greatful, and he is a hero. He still will not wear anything army. He doesn't want to talk about it. Everyone is different.
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He is a bit of a different mater from the vast majority of the military. Even in times of conflict there are tens of thousands of military personnel that never
directly harmed a soul for every one that actually killed somebody. I don't recall the exact number but during WW2 there was only something like 5% of the U.S. military that directly killed a person. If you count all the people that have served since WW2 even counting the conflicts that occurred you would have a percentage with so may zeros after the decimal point to be almost meaningless. Those very few (in the big picture) that do have to kill directly can deal with it in many ways. As long as they DEAL with it!