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Comment by ggm

Perhaps you have never plumbed the depths? I mean, he wrote of men's experiences in the trenches under continuous bombardment for days, and again in WWii. I don't mean to diminish anyone's personal experiences, but do you think absent being on the receiving side in raqqah or the like, current armed forces routinely undergo anything comparable?

I write as somebody quite timid. I am sure contextually informed or not, I do not have the resiliency others have in prologued states of stress and fear.

parent ggm 8 years ago

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