There's the cliche of the soldier, excited to go to war and becoming disillusioned when he experiences death in its entirety. But then on other occasions I see vets who seem to look back on their active military days as the best time of their life. So which is true?
Is war fun?
Robert Cooper
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Henry Sanders
both. they look back at it as the best time of their lives not because it was fun, but because they forgot how to do anything else but war in that time. to put it in a metaphor: their eyes got so used to the darkness that the can't stand the light anymore, and so they choose being in the darkness whenever possible since that's a world they understand.
Tyler Powell
Both are true. You wouldn't understand.
Chase Myers
I guess you get the same high as in extreme sports. Being able to evade death by a hairs length surely will make you feel like God for a while...
but, I'd still do parachuting instead of joining a losing team in war.
also, don't forget the reddit likes youd get if you survived.
Caleb Cruz
From the Vets I've spoken to, it doesn't seem like that at all. It seems like they genuinely enjoyed their duty, enjoyed fire fights and had a fun time driving vehicles around and blowing shit up. I haven't ever met a vet who acted like war was some deep experience that changed his very being. I only ever see that image of soldiers in movies.
Tyler Garcia
look, war breaks you emotionally. YOU CAN'T be 'normal' after and you can't imagine what being 'normal' was like. they can't talk about it changing them forever BECAUSE it changed them forever.
Ian Morales
I think the clint eastwood movie captures it vividly (sniper or what its called).
The problem is, after war ends you have to go back to your mundane life. You won't be able to function in peace times anymore. You'll yearn for camaraderie, danger, euphoria of killing etc.
Josiah Moore
You usually don't experience the same level of brother hood or purpose ever again in your life
Daniel Walker
Maybe because they were fighting only severely disadvantaged enemies.
Colton Ramirez
How do you know, did you serve? Or did you watch a movie that portrayed this?
Liam Fisher
That might be true. But the same could be said of some Vietnam veterans, even WW2 vets. But I do believe a brutal for life or death war would have a larger impact on the psyche than Afghanistan and Iraq.
Bentley Foster
Ever been around that one asshole who picks on people and makes jokes and people laugh, but they really aren't laughing they're just easing the awkward tension?
War is like that, but heightened by 1000, yea they're all on the surface having "fun", but the laughing and hooting and screaming is just a coping mechanism.
Then one of your buddies dies and it slowly dies down as you start to realize it could happen to you... then you become consumed by what you've become.
Liam Reed
The ones that look back favorably never realized they are just disposable pawns
Evan Lee
it is a place where you have a clear purpose. when you are in it, nothing matters except your brothers and your mission. when you exit, you start to see the larger picture on how you were used, and your purpose was bullshit. but back before you could see that... yeah, you thought it was great, so the memories of brotherhood and purpose are still fond, even if it was all for bullshit.
Andrew Powell
They enjoyed it because they were fighting retards without a modern military supporting them
Sebastian Gutierrez
adrenaline is a hell of a drug
Nathan Cox
i think i served but not in this cycle.
Jason Evans
Every time I talk to a happy vet, it's always some silly story about how they had to put an operation on hold because one of the soldiers had to take a shit.
Whenever I talked to ones missing a limb or mentioning any combat, they're really fucked up and on edge. If you even hint to the war being happy, you'll get a stern look and a ten minute lecture from them.
The happy ones never actually saw combat.
Nathan Cruz
>But then on other occasions I see vets who seem to look back on their active military days as the best time of their life
Yes, the active military days. Not the war parts, if they had any experience in that.
>>But then on other occasions I see vets who seem to look back on their active military days as the best time of their life
Anything enjoyable thing you were doing in your younger days you look back on at the best time in your life. High school and college playing video games or sports hanging with friends and gf, military service, young professional athletes just getting started, etc
Kayden Foster
This should answer it for you
Elijah Myers
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
That being said, I don't fight for free.
Isaiah Taylor
I have a family friend who was in Helmand Province.
When he was asked by his brother, that if he had killed anyone, then he answered he doesn´t know, because if multiple men shoot at the same enemy/target.
After his service he came home and started to drink for 2-3 years.
I saw him couple of times at the local store, he looked a bit funky and paranoid.
But now more than 10 years later, he seems quite alright, works and has healthy hobbies.
It´s subjective, i´d say.
It all comes down to the war experience and how you can handle it.
Brayden Watson
Soldiers are idiots how deserve to be maimed and killed.
Aiden Mitchell
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Michael Adams
War can be many things.
It can happen in your home or in a very distant land where the enemies don't even seem humans to you.
You can kill, you can die or you may not even get shot at or fire a weapon in anger.
Most western soldiers of the 2001-2021 wars may have had a very different experience to those on the receiving end.
Matthew Powell
WW2 was essentially fought between cultured gentlemen. Also, men who came out victoriously brought along a booming economy and future for their ungrateful gluttonous children (boomers)
Vietnam was a dirty party full of napalm, drugs & rocknroll.
Afghanistan was fought with modern warfare with "rules of engagement" BS against brutal savages.