Experiences are different.
I rabbit hunted with an older, skinny Barney Fife looking country fellow for years before noticing a Vietnam pin on his hat. Quiet fellow. He was a friend of my Dad's. He always struck me as kind of wimpy. Maybe a little incompetent. I asked him about the pin. He was an Army sniper. He would get dropped off by a chopper with a spotter and be in the field for two weeks at a time usually at or behind enemy lines. I replied that it must have been an awful thing. He said not at all. In fact, he loved it and remembers it as an adventure. He said he would do it again if he was able. And that was all he ever said about it.
At first I doubted him but my father and others confirmed it.
Some may see him as heartless or bloodthirsty. But in his life after his service he was quiet and almost meek. Rarely shot at a rabbit.
It takes different types. I thank God that we had and still have warriors like him. We would be in a bigger mess without them than with them.
I'm a physician and taking a life is the last thing I would ever want to do. I'm also a Christian. But there is nothing about my calling or my religion that dictates that I not defend myself. I also served in the USAF.
I rabbit hunted with an older, skinny Barney Fife looking country fellow for years before noticing a Vietnam pin on his hat. Quiet fellow. He was a friend of my Dad's. He always struck me as kind of wimpy. Maybe a little incompetent. I asked him about the pin. He was an Army sniper. He would get dropped off by a chopper with a spotter and be in the field for two weeks at a time usually at or behind enemy lines. I replied that it must have been an awful thing. He said not at all. In fact, he loved it and remembers it as an adventure. He said he would do it again if he was able. And that was all he ever said about it.
At first I doubted him but my father and others confirmed it.
Some may see him as heartless or bloodthirsty. But in his life after his service he was quiet and almost meek. Rarely shot at a rabbit.
It takes different types. I thank God that we had and still have warriors like him. We would be in a bigger mess without them than with them.
I'm a physician and taking a life is the last thing I would ever want to do. I'm also a Christian. But there is nothing about my calling or my religion that dictates that I not defend myself. I also served in the USAF.