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Originally Posted by Botnst
I know a man who was a marine sniper in Vietnam from 1965 to 1969 or so. He is a good friend and a good man. . . . After Vietnam he had a few issues getting settled into GI Bill & college and so forth but eventually settled into a productive pretty normal life. He was able to separate his duty as a marine from his later life.
Over the many years I've known him I have heard very few tales of his experiences. Some are extremely bizarre, yet bizarrely believable. He received two Bronze Stars, a Silver Star and a Purple Heart.
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I always wonder what the effects on a person are to go to war, deliberately kill people for a time, and then return to civilian life. As a younger man, I used to think one could separate these experiences, compartmentalize them, and live as though they never happened. I don't think that anymore. Maybe it's the fact of getting older, but I know what the phrase, "living with one's demons," means now.
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