Killing Is Not What Messes With Your Head

The first question I get asked, more often than not, when someone discovers I m a combat veteran, is whether I killed someone. Whilst the rudest question to ask, it s also the most obvious question. The problem is naivety though from civilians who do not really understand what is traumatic about operational deployments. Killing someone is the easy part... not being killed is the constant unknown, let alone survivors guilt from seeing or hearing about a buddy who lost the battle of survival,... Killing Is Not What Messes With Your Head
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