For US vets there is the added issue that they were told, from birth, that war is fun and has nothing to do with killing people or being killed, it's like a video game, they aren't people they are the enemy, and so on. Europeans remember wars on their soil and actually teach their children that war is horrible.

So the Americans go to war and it's horrible, and they have to kill people, and they have to be almost killed, and it's not like a video game, and either if they're arabs they *are* the enemy *or* I am killing women, children, old people, and men, just because they look like arabs.

I would come home needing more therapy than is being offered.

I would come home needing to be understood, whereas the whole society still seems to think that war should be like a video game and if I can't handle it there is something wrong with ME.

There is something wrong with WAR.

The US needs to understand this.