Vets Have An Obligation To Share Their Stories Because ----- [View all]
the younger generations would not so easily be duped into the military and going to war.
My story is really a pretty insignificant one compared to combat troops who faced continual fighting in our various wars. Hiding and denying your experience hurts vets emotionally and it deprives others of the understanding about how terrible wars are. It hides the consequences of what it means to go to war.
I share my limited experiences so that others are informed about what it is like to live in a war zone. American has been spared such a catastrophe except for the Civil War. Our wars are portrayed like war games or something that happens in the movies. Real battles are nothing like any of that.
The saddest thing about the vet experience is to have guilt for what you did in war. The real truth is that there really are no rules in war. Things happen and every thing is chaos in the extreme. Even with training a soldier is in a reactive state. What you do in war is nothing to necessarily fell proud of, but many times guilt is misplaced.
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