It sucks for the author that by the age of 16 he had already been brainwashed into thinking that being a soldier was a good idea.
Good on the bloke, starting a charity and helping others. But governments (of all stripes) should be doing more to get a functional mental healthcare programme in place for veterans. The numbers of suicides are catastrophic.
“your trauma has been found to be non service related”
**insert select quotes from that hearing where the tossifers where laughing at that soldier for various issues.
It’s always been this way.. they pull you in with fantasies of King and Country, ruin your body, pollute your mind and then spit you out broken the other side.
War is Hell. Need we say more? It is no different to the war poetry studied at GCSE, people sent abroad to fight in terrible conditions experience severe mental health issues and are left to themselves once it is all over. It’s a tale as old as time but one we refuse to learn from because it is uncomfortable to talk about.
‘My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.’
– Wilfred Owen
that is awful, why does this happen is it due to the sudden drop of doing nothing and having no orders to follow.
Why are all literally all the Newsweek comments arguing about Joe Biden, Donald Trump and US politics, when the guy is British? Bladdy yanks.
Anyway, good read. Good to hear his military perspective, as a non-military person. That is crazy that he worked with people and presumably got to know them, then four of them were suddenly killed and straight away they’re just carrying on with their job, aside from all the other ways being in a conflict zone changes affects your brain.
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It sucks for the author that by the age of 16 he had already been brainwashed into thinking that being a soldier was a good idea.
Good on the bloke, starting a charity and helping others. But governments (of all stripes) should be doing more to get a functional mental healthcare programme in place for veterans. The numbers of suicides are catastrophic.
“your trauma has been found to be non service related”
**insert select quotes from that hearing where the tossifers where laughing at that soldier for various issues.
It’s always been this way.. they pull you in with fantasies of King and Country, ruin your body, pollute your mind and then spit you out broken the other side.
War is Hell. Need we say more? It is no different to the war poetry studied at GCSE, people sent abroad to fight in terrible conditions experience severe mental health issues and are left to themselves once it is all over. It’s a tale as old as time but one we refuse to learn from because it is uncomfortable to talk about.
‘My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.’
– Wilfred Owen
that is awful, why does this happen is it due to the sudden drop of doing nothing and having no orders to follow.
Why are all literally all the Newsweek comments arguing about Joe Biden, Donald Trump and US politics, when the guy is British? Bladdy yanks.
Anyway, good read. Good to hear his military perspective, as a non-military person. That is crazy that he worked with people and presumably got to know them, then four of them were suddenly killed and straight away they’re just carrying on with their job, aside from all the other ways being in a conflict zone changes affects your brain.