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The Negative Effects Of Combat Were Nightmares, And I'd Get Jumpy Around Certain Noises And Stuff, But You'd Have That After A Car Accident Or A Bad Divorce. Life's Filled With Trauma. You Don't Need To Go To War To Find It It's Going To Find You. We All Deal With It, And The Effects Go Away After Awhile. At Least They Did For Me.

Who Wants A Life Of Ease? And Who Wants A Life In The Office That You Hate, And Who Wants To Play Golf?

I Had Grown Up During Vietnam. I Had No Connections To The U.s. Military, And I Had A Pretty Cynical Default Opinion About The U.s. Military.

At 19, Your Brain Hasn't Finished Wiring Itself. So The First Time You Have A Good Friend Die, Most People Don't Go Through That At 19. Soldiers Do. They're Facing Life In This Accelerated, Compressed Form, And A Lot Of Times, They're Not Ready For It.

War Affected My Family A Lot, And I Was Quite Curious About It. I First Went Off To War In The Early 90's As A Journalist, Partly Out Of Curiosity And Partly Because I Needed A Career. War Reporting Has Been Very Glamorous And Exciting, And Everything Else That Young Men Like.