| | | Sorry folks but my sense is that few if any on this thread participated in real wars or where under live fire, saw their fellow soldiers badly wounded or smelled the smell of burned human flesh.
All those heroic BS of bravery is ultimately irresponsibility and plain stupidity, I was there done it and felt heroic, even received citation.
But now many years later I realised I was plain irresponsible or even stupid, that is why they send young people to the army and fight wars - they have little sense of the meaning of life, and that dying is irreversible.
Let me summarise it clearly - war is horrible when real, it is not a movie or a story of the wild west - seeing your buddies to arms blown up into pieces, is not a happy event - at least with me I had nightmares for years, was getting goosebumps for over 10 years when seeing a beautiful yellow full moon - why? Because in October 1973 I was in a horrible war and in the evening saw a huge yellow moon rising over the battlefield. and in one of the bloodiest events en.wikipedia.org
In 1967, I was under heave artillery fire and very young, nothing happen no one was hit, it was like in the movies, since that experience I got the feeling of being invincible, took unnecessary risks on the Suez canal, until I was forced to face reality in October 1973
Therefore I do not like or cannot watch war movies, because I know what it actually means losing body parts or remaining paralyzed for life
So please stop the macho heroic commentary |
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