Not just of places you have not been and things you had the privilege of not doing, your undoing,

But my very existence as a citizen-soldier sent by you to YOUR war which you can cleanse yourself from daily with a change of a thought or a channel,

Streaming into your TV at night are my ghost-brothers, my Wolf Band of the Cheyenne, and they will not let go,

Nor will the ones we have lost, those who paid the greatest cost, the very ones nobody can even name any more there have been so many already, and their widows and orphans,

Who will be the wife of such a madman, the neighbor of the soul tormented by Legion, the friend of such an ill body?

The veteran suffers like Job, and has days he curses the day he was born; yet strangely would do it all again, yes even go back for relief from YOUR world.

One of the members from Veterans for America wrote this piece. He has written many others. He states the facts quite clearly. But unfortunately you would have to be there to really understand completely. And I am not sure you would be able to handle it if you were.

Real war is hard for anyone to handle. Maybe that is why it is hard for some to imagine.

Thank you.

My heart goes out to his tortured soul.

Yes, very tough to read.

It might be a lot, a lot better for the soldier if he (or she) is more certain of the rightness of the cause. Most soldiers and families during USA World War II had no doubts or anguish about dropping the two atomic bombs on Japan.