[Responsibility2nd]

What about the demons he left for his wife and children?

Selfish.

[Ancesthntr]

“What about the demons he left for his wife and children?

Selfish.”

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You say that as a reasonably rational person sitting safely at a computer or on your phone. You don’t have to go to bed at night, afraid of what your past is going to do to you that night. You have not a single clue as to what he had to deal with, and the fact that someone who was clearly suffering so much is not the same person that entered the service or got married so many years ago. He was clearly not rational, clearly not balanced, clearly incapable of dealing with life as he saw it...and you condemn him for it.

I sincerely hope, for your sake, that you aren’t judged by the same standard by which you have judged this man.

[caww]

How do you now what was said between his former commander he had dinner with just before?......What if she was cheating on him or wanted a divorce? Never wise to jump ahead of the facts.

I knew an acquaintence who suffered greatly from the war in Vietnam after just one turn of duty there. Horrible and beyond imagining what he saw the enemy do to his battalion. War leaves more than scars....lots more...flash backs are a terrible thing to endure even with help. He ended up at a lake cabin by himself, lost his family and all he once knew himself to be.