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I can't make it through the "death camp" scene without breaking down. I just can't imagine it...
I mean it's the same with the soldiers in Iraq now. How do you go from being some kid out of high school, to a foreign country where you are seeing on a day to day basis, people being burned, shot, exploded, murdered, raped, tortured... You lose your best friends, you hold some of them while they die, you watch them bleed out in your lap. You get used to a life of barbaric proportions where death and destruction are the norm...
...then you come back to run a convenience store, or manage an office or whatever...
...how the fuck do you do that? It's amazing to me.
My wife's grandfather was one of Darby's Rangers in Italy. Stepped on a landmine and layed in the snow for 3 days dying. Had a german soldier come up to him while he lay there and put a gun to his head, but opted to let him suffer in the snow instead. They found him and he came home. He's 80 and everytime I look at him, I just can't imagine what his eyes have seen and what his mind must go through every day. Nice as hell old man and you'd never think to yourself, "he used to kill as many men as he could get his sights on..."
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