When the "Thrill" is Gone

I've said this before, but it bears repeating. The wave of suicides of former U.S. military personnel is a way in which karma works. The bad things you do in life will come back to haunt you. You can't sleep or you have nightmares, you can't eat, you drink and take drugs; you can't have a normal life. All those people you killed for no reason. All those people you tortured or did horrible things to. You have to pay for what you did. In a way, it's and eye for an eye. Except, in this case, it's you who take your eye out.

Two comments about this situation are extremely revealing. In trying to explain how the soldiers who come back feel, one reads: "The thrill of combat is gone." Jesus! Is that what these guys are there for? Thrill-seeking?  Another likened combat to the "Wild West." War as a video game or the romanticized violence of the American expansion. No wonder these people kill themselves; they were deeply disturbed to begin with.

Then they come back and cry for help. But, there is no help, and what there is, is not much help. They were doomed the day they decided to go and kill people in faraway places, no questions asked.

It's not difficult to understand how that leads to taking your own life.

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