should be given to human beings in war. There are those who thrive on it and enjoy battle. The British army says after a conflict there is always a higher than usual retirement of personnel which has always been the case. Those who know what war looks like never want to experience it again. In World War One men who had had enough were shot, not counselled, and even in World War Two men were treated as cowards if they failed to function due to trauma. In Vietnam and even before men were given alcohol and drugs to make them combat ready. That goes back centuries when Hashashin were made high so they would not mind being killed in their suicide missions.
To day we are more aware of trauma and the pain and suffering not only of soldiers but of everyone who experiences conflict. Children especially. It is a mark of human insanity that war still rmeians with us.
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