whaletail116 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 "There's nothing like it, nothing in the world. It's an adrenaline rush like you can't imagine." -SGT Steiner, and the kid wasn't lying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaletail116 Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. It's insanely exciting. The machinery of war and the sound it makes and the urgency of its use and the consequences of almost everything about it are the most exciting things anyone engaged in war will ever know. War is supposed to feel bad because undeniably bad things happen in it, but for a nineteen-year-old boy at the working end of an M16 during a firefight that everyone comes out of okay, war is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. In some ways twenty minutes of combat is more life than you could scrape together in a lifetime of doing something else. Combat isn't where you might die--though that does happen--it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation (Junger, 144). Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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