Originally posted by: Megatomic
Originally posted by: dumbass soldier
"You can sit around your house and discuss this thing in abstract terms, but until you see and experience it for yourself, you just don't know how bad it is," he said. "How is it an honorable thing to teach a kid how to look through the sights of a rifle and kill another human being? War is the ultimate in violence and it is indiscriminate."
Why in the hell did he enlist in the US Army in the first place then? And if he's a sergeant in the Army, then this most likely isn't his first enlistment. He is fully indoctrinated into what being a soldier is all about. I call bullshit on his new morality and say hello to newfound cowardice.
This message posted by a veteran of the Operation Desert Storm and a non-reenlister after his initial term of enlistment.