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Originally Posted by Mako
Looks good. A bit too much melodrama in those trailers, no matter what the book it's based on said the first Gulf War is a "one" out of "ten" on the true horror scale, with Vietnam being the "ten".
Claiming that Gulf War soldiers "saw too much" is a joke, at least it is according to the half dozen friends I have who served in it and saw light action. And all of them said there was no such name for the gulf as "the suck" among troops. Another cute invention to tie it to Vietnam.
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I disagree. My Grandfather died a US Marine in the South Pacific in WWII, and my father died in Vietnam as a US Marine. I also served four years as a US Marine.
War is not defined in "degrees" as one war being worse than another to the soldiers coming home. It doesn't matter if you saw one person die or one hundred people die. It's just the fact that you lived in a warzone where you and you friends could die at any moment. It cheapens life. And some don't receover from it.
Years ago an accident happened in front of me which ended with a mini van loaded with four teenagers turning upside down and catching on fire. Myself and a handful of other people were able to rescue two kids out of the back before the fire got too intense. The two kids in front died - burned to death right in front of us, and there is nothing any of us could have done. Trust me when I tell you that moment changed my life forever.