SFC A.M. Drake 62304 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> 2014-02-22T11:22:37-05:00 SFC A.M. Drake 62304

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2014-02-22T11:22:37-05:00 2014-02-22T11:22:37-05:00 CPT Brandon Christensen 62312

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How fast it beats

2014-02-22T11:30:47-05:00 2014-02-22T11:30:47-05:00 SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member 62328

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I looked into the dead corpse of one about three days ago, all I noticed was an alarming lack of hygiene. I guess eventually that might lead to the problems with the heart....

2014-02-22T11:56:13-05:00 2014-02-22T11:56:13-05:00 TSgt Christopher D. 62340

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I&#39;m disturbed by the other answers here (2 as I write). I guess I shouldn&#39;t be, since the &amp;nbsp;mission of the military is to kill and destroy.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In order to properly answer the question, I think we have to put ourselves in their shoes; a simple exercise of empathy. What if another country decided to invade us, and we had their equivalent of an armed force, and they had ours? What if we did not understand the reason, or sympathized with the objectives of the group that brought such an invasion upon us? What if we watched planes drop bombs on our neighborhood and killed many people we knew? What if we saw these people hunt Bob down the street because they said he was a turrst? Would we stand idly by and watch without resisting? I think not.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In these situations there are prime movers (or directors and agendas behind these operations), and there are prime losers. Too often the prime loses have no idea what&#39;s going on, but are simply doing what they can to survive, or get revenge against those they blame for the death of a friend or loved one. This is why the GWOT can never end... anyone who resists is, or will be labeled a turrst. That we watch this happen all around us without more of us raising questions is disturbing. But Kissinger made it clear what he thought of military men: &quot;Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.&quot; Comments devoid of empathy for our &#39;enemy&#39; and blind to behind-the-scenes agendas make it appear that in many cases, he was right. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

2014-02-22T12:37:44-05:00 2014-02-22T12:37:44-05:00 SSG Laureano Pabon 62355

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&lt;p&gt;SFC M.D I would see the cause he is fighting is not the same as mines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In battle he would fight for his country as I would for mines, making us soldiers fighting for opposite reasons we both don&#39;t agree upon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

2014-02-22T13:27:33-05:00 2014-02-22T13:27:33-05:00 1LT Private RallyPoint Member 62363

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Absolutely nothing.

2014-02-22T13:47:50-05:00 2014-02-22T13:47:50-05:00 1LT Private RallyPoint Member 62460

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>SFC AMD.  <div><br></div><div>In my time, in Vietnam men and women on both sides fought to overwhelm and completely eviscerate each other in the field.  Many were so very severely wounded, burned, or blown apart they were barely recognizable.  </div><div><br></div><div>That said, I was surprised and so deeply heart warmed when our guys would call nurses across the ward to tell us an enemy combattant in the next bed may need additional sedation or pain relief.  When combattants are wounded and in hospital they are all the same people with the same kind of humanity.  </div><div><br></div><div>The only exceptions were psychotics like some of our own, friendly, and enemy interrogators and others who, perhaps because they have lost everything that ever mattered to them, have lost their humanity and either directly or indirectly by their behavior commit atrocities and all too often kill helpless long term captive men and women. </div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps our men and women in the field in harms way retain these same feelings today.<br><div><br></div><br /><div>Wamest Regards, Sandy</div><br /><div><br></div><br /></div>

2014-02-22T16:39:31-05:00 2014-02-22T16:39:31-05:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 62720

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think and have always said that the warrior across from us has the same concerns.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The health and relative safety of their children, wife and family.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They would not be savages and I wince sometimes at the names to Asian people.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Too much but then I do see the environment they were in and take it into account.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;

2014-02-23T02:16:03-05:00 2014-02-23T02:16:03-05:00 SPC David Wyckoff 62895

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&lt;P&gt;It&#39;s not so much our differences in the heart as it is the mind. I was going home and I was going to do my dead level best to bring my brothers home, preferably in one piece. If doing that meant my enemy did not, then so be it. &lt;/P&gt;<br />&lt;P&gt;That mindset served me well in my law enforcement career after I got out too. &lt;/P&gt;

2014-02-23T11:49:03-05:00 2014-02-23T11:49:03-05:00 Cpl Ray Fernandez 62898

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If I looked into the heart of my enemy and looked for a difference I&#39;d hope for two things one it&#39;s not beating and&amp;nbsp; it&#39;s riddled with bullets, or if I looked into their mind the last thing going through it would hopefully be a single well placed round. &lt;br&gt;

2014-02-23T11:54:13-05:00 2014-02-23T11:54:13-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 62922

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It would not be beating, since I probably would have to cut him open to see it

2014-02-23T12:47:11-05:00 2014-02-23T12:47:11-05:00 TSgt Private RallyPoint Member 62934

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Answer: My Kabar.

2014-02-23T13:18:37-05:00 2014-02-23T13:18:37-05:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 62965

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hate versus a genuine concern for my teammates.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I fight for the men and women beside me so that we may all come home. &amp;nbsp;The enemy seems to fight out of hatred for our ideology. Other than that I don&#39;t think much would be different.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

2014-02-23T14:11:33-05:00 2014-02-23T14:11:33-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 63366

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The perseverance to outlast the invaders and the determination to put my way of life ahead of all reason.&lt;br&gt;

2014-02-24T09:19:24-05:00 2014-02-24T09:19:24-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 112786

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Lead

2014-04-27T10:36:47-04:00 2014-04-27T10:36:47-04:00 TSgt Kenneth Ellis 741924

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have a different view then I would have had before the he Gulf War.

2015-06-11T15:52:01-04:00 2015-06-11T15:52:01-04:00 PO2 John Drillock 7671391

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Paint peeling!

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