Neighbors Kid just got home from Iraq

I was visiting my neighbor.I look up and see a four wheeler coming down the road.I didn`t recognize who was riding it.I knew it was my other neighbors.Man on it said Hiya Lindy.I was taken aback.
Here was the kid next door.The one I took fishing,drove him to his first job at mcdonalds.I had not seen him in over a year actually closer to two.He`s 20 years old but oh my god he looked 35.
I hugged him and asked how he has been.My neighbor the one that I was visiting to bum some 4 lb test fishing line off of started to ask Charlie (20 year old) how iraq was.
I stood in stunned disbelief as the conversation quickly went to phrased like "trigger time" and "getting our asses shot off"
This transformation of Charlie the kid that liked to paint ,fish ,listen to music and biggest care used to be if he could borrow 20 bucks to take his girlfriend out is in my feeling the biggest crime of *.
(I do not judge him for doing his job and doing it well.I am not saying that I am repulsed at this loving boy just deeply saddened at what he has been subjected to)

big ones.

And maybe remind him/reintroduce him back to those simple things that delighted his heart and mind...... since you are a caretaker of his most innocent self.... :-)

You can't go to war and return as the same person. It changes people, and 99% of the time they are changed for the worse. Other than killing thousands of innocent people, that is the biggest crime committed in war.

there's the CHANGED....and the traumatized.

why people who have served are considered a better bet as politicans