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Originally Posted by Skybird
I dare to bet against you, August, that much, much more vets return from their servicetime in Iraq or Afghanistan than just that one in 15 you mentioned who actually suffer issues from their time in war. It's just that they have become used to hide that as long as possible and not to talk about it as long as they can avoid it. It is against what I tried to summarize in the opening paragraph. You do not show your fears or weaknesses. You just don't. You instead smile and say "All okay." The vacuum consuming you when you sit alone in your room or the isolation you feel when being in the middle of a crowd and the adrenaline starts pumping or the memories turning your sleep into hell - is something you guys even do not tell a doctor as long as you still can uphold the illusion that you "have evertyhing under control". Loss of control is weakness.
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Don't try to tell a soldier and the son (and grandson and great grandson) of a soldier how soldiers feel Skybird. We had something like 15 million people under arms during WW2. The overwhelming majority of them went on to lead great lives. Now you can claim that they all suffered some kind of hidden damage but if so it wasn't so great that it left them damaged goods. It did not stop them from living long and happy lives afterwards.
We have a saying over here that goes "the proof is in the pudding". The real lives of millions trumps your claims to the contrary.