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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Happens during war. Some are successful in hiding the truth and atrocities others get caught. Of course the pious sitting behind their desks come out in droves shaking their heads in disgust.
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This.
Personally, I think its all to easy to cast judgement when your not walking through the same dangers and daily BS you'd have to deal with being a combat area. The big kicker is something that most people who haven't walked a similar walk don't think about. Coping and the environment.
By environment, i don't mean "Go green, save the tree", i mean the job, the people around you, the daily hazards you face. The harsher it is, the harsher your character can become, because not everyone deals with things the same way. Some things can effect a person more severe then others.
Ill bet almost anything, that there's a good number of troops that
- probably don't remember how old they are or when their birthday was, or even holidays like xmas.
- don't remember what the sound of a loved ones voice is
- probably lives day by day, with home nothing but a distant memory, and their current situation just "how it is, and how it is always going to be".
At some point, you lose a bit of your .... civility? Im not sure what the word is, but at some point, you just stop giving a damn, because the current nightmare, will never end.
Ill further wager that when some of them get back to the states, they'll think their dreaming, be in a state of total disbeleif that "it" is finally over, and that when they wake up in the morning, it'll be on a cot in a tent or bunker somewhere, with being back in the states, a wild dream, a fantasy impossible to realize.
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Originally Posted by TarJak
Rule #1 when committing a war attrocity: Don't record it in anyway or leave any witnesses to it.
Idiots is the right term to describe these Jarheads.
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Also this. There's an old expression that's been around, probably since vietnam.
"What happens in the field, STAYS in the field." Also expressed as, "What goes TDY, stays TDY".