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xoxoxoBruce · 08-13-2014, 01:58 PM

The ones who did what they thought was expected of them, when they heard 'over the top' they went, even knowing most of the last 50,000 who did, are dead. Even the soldiers who didn't distinguish themselves in the Army's eyes, witnessed and often committed, horrendous acts of inhumanity.

When it was over, most didn't want to talk about it, they wanted to forget, return to before. Many died in the next few years, from alcohol abuse, suicide, "accidents"(turned on the stove but forgot to light it), or just disappeared. There would be an occasional whisper and knowing wink, 'He hasn't been right since the war', but mostly nobody discussed it. They didn't really understand how war twisted people in a way they couldn't just rub some dirt in it and forget.

In recent years, I've come to believe, what you do to others will haunt you more than what they did to you.

08-13-2014, 01:58 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The ones who did what they thought was expected of them, when they heard 'over the top' they went, even knowing most of the last 50,000 who did, are dead. Even the soldiers who didn't distinguish themselves in the Army's eyes, witnessed and often committed, horrendous acts of inhumanity. When it was over, most didn't want to talk about it, they wanted to forget, return to before. Many died in the next few years, from alcohol abuse, suicide, "accidents"(turned on the stove but forgot to light it), or just disappeared. There would be an occasional whisper and knowing wink, 'He hasn't been right since the war', but mostly nobody discussed it. They didn't really understand how war twisted people in a way they couldn't just rub some dirt in it and forget. In recent years, I've come to believe, what you do to others will haunt you more than what they did to you. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.