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My father fought in Vietnam. My grandfather fought in the European theater in WW2 and was a medic in Korea.
I grew up with their stories of working with men their who had everything ripped from them. https://twitter.com/25th_prestige/status/1339297873167405056
I grew up with their stories of working with men their who had everything ripped from them. https://twitter.com/25th_prestige/status/1339297873167405056
Ive never been in the military so I'm telling the stories I grew up hearing. They told me about how war worked as they saw it. That there were guys there in the military doing their jobs and hoping to go home.... then there were the locals.
The men who had lost everything.
The men who had lost everything.
These are 2 men separated by 40 years apart in fighting. Fighting 2 very different kind of wars. Both said the same things. There was nothing more frighting and violent than the locals who's lives had been taken from them.
You think you know loss? They told me of men who's wives were raped and killed in front of them. Children executed. Coming home to it burned down with their family inside. Everything taken from them. They had no life to go back to.
My father said he tried to avoid being attached to units with these guys (he was Army signal corps). They killed everything in his words. They didn't take prisoners. He was fighting to go home, to stay alive, for the guy next to him. They wanted revenge.
My dad was attached to a unit looking for an interpreters brother who had been kidnapped. He said it was one of the most horrific thing he saw over there when they found him. It drove the mans brother to want to kill everything. He wasn't the same. He changed.
I remember these stories as I see Democrat's just casually scoff at people complaining about having everything they've built over a lifetime or even several lifetimes taken away by the government.
You take everything from a man what have you left of him?
You take everything from a man what have you left of him?
