Originally posted by Churchill
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A lot of us have read these books and watched the documentaries and the films because we have a natural human fascination with war (possibly the males do more than the females, but whatever) and we have the message drummed in to us over and over - there is no glory in war.
But some people still insist on joining the army and getting in to real combat, getting scared witless and seeing their comrades killed - exactly as they've always been told would happen - and then they come back and start patronising everyone else with the "you weren't there, man" schtick.
It's a brave job those people do, and I could never do it myself, but they can't say they weren't warned. And they shouldn't hold some sort of superior stance over people who did read the books and got the message and decided, "no thanks!"
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