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This is War

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This is War

Incongruity

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, History, Social Sciences, Science

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s possible to kill both without remorse and without malice, but it is impossible to kill without consequence. Even when the consequence is satisfaction or a sense of a wrong righted, killing is something that stays with a person for the rest of their lives.

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0:00.0

Late時拖 endeavour

0:28.1

Many veterans remember combat as a profoundly raw experience, a time in their lives where

0:49.1

they're wills, their bravery and their fragility are right out there, without any cover.

0:53.9

Some of them learn that it's possible to kill without remorse and without malice, but it's

0:58.0

impossible to kill without consequence.

1:00.7

Even when the consequence is satisfaction or the sense of a wrong right aid, killing

1:04.2

is something that stays with a person for the rest of their lives.

1:07.8

Coming to terms with it is something Russell Davies discovered is just a part of the process

1:11.7

of coming home.

1:13.4

You know, I think if most people were to take a step back and just try to, for a moment,

1:19.1

fathom the idea of going to a third world country and having to take lives that were taken

1:26.6

by your hands and then coming back and trying to adjust to a social norm that more people

1:33.7

could realize why PTSD is having such a tragic effect on soldiers returning from combat.

1:43.2

What is true bravery? What makes a hero a hero?

1:56.3

Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality

2:01.5

of what you're facing here and now.

2:05.1

When your life is in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed.

2:10.8

From wondering, an incongruity media, this is Anthony Russo and this is War.

2:36.5

Russell Davies was bound set of high school just shy of graduation for fighting and it nearly

2:40.1

kept him from joining the military.

2:42.0

But in 2006, the army was struggling with enlistment numbers and his recruiter became a fixer

2:46.9

and Davies became a soldier.

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