I just needed to compose myself and sought privacy and cold water to rinse my face. I have lived in a testosterone rich environment all my life so the language and war violence didn’t bother me, plus working in a medical environment for 20 years kinda immunized me to some sights. It was his sad death at the hands of another vet with ptsd that brought on the tears. So many lives affected by these wars....
Kyle was a complicated, fallen man. As we all are. Many of his own unit did not like him (though that is common with snipers), and many thought he “sold out”.
But he was trying to give back. He was trying to heal others who had been broken by the war. He was doing it the way he had found peace. Many are talking of his faults, and I am sure he had many. But in he risked, and gave, his life in the service of others.