"He is scheduled to return home this month, and said his biggest fear is that he feels nothing about those he has killed.
'DOESN'T BOTHER YOU'
"You wonder why it doesn't bother you to see bodies explode or chopped to little pieces by a machine-gun and know that you did it."
That feeling of numbness, along with anger and an inability to cope, is a common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder."
I'm going to totally disagree with this statement. Why should you feel guilt or remorse for killing bad people? There are alot of people out there that deserve killing.
I believe its the media that's convinced soldiers that if you kill someone you have to suffer from some sort of PTSD, guilt, whatever. After killing bad guys, surviving a contact, etc you should feel GOOD.
'DOESN'T BOTHER YOU'
"You wonder why it doesn't bother you to see bodies explode or chopped to little pieces by a machine-gun and know that you did it."
That feeling of numbness, along with anger and an inability to cope, is a common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder."
I'm going to totally disagree with this statement. Why should you feel guilt or remorse for killing bad people? There are alot of people out there that deserve killing.
I believe its the media that's convinced soldiers that if you kill someone you have to suffer from some sort of PTSD, guilt, whatever. After killing bad guys, surviving a contact, etc you should feel GOOD.