/lit/ - Literature

>>14325408

We have a lot of spare time to read in between patrols and porn

t. Army 1988-1994

>>12587255

I served in the military

>>12383582

>be me
>be in the Army
>get deployed to third world countries plagued by instability and civil war
>be mostly emotionally unaffected by the combat or even having friends killed
>see sick, dead, and dying kids (mostly from disease or starvation, some from gun battles too)
>want to curl up into a ball and cry

I know this sounds weird coming from a former elite light infantryman (well, not that elite), but I really feel for Anne Frank. Not in a sexual kind of way like Jeff Mangum and /his/fags do, but a situational one I suppose. A little girl having to live in abject terror of something she can't really understand (the political aspect of war). I saw a lot of young girls (and boys) the same age as Anne or even younger, wasting away from the same shit that killed her (starvation, cholera, malaria, typhus, etc.). Probably asking the same question that she did. "Why?" They had no say in any of it, no means of escape, just like her.

>>12170748

48 here, stop calling me a Boomer you damn kids.

>>12132187

I've killed people and felt literally fucking nothing about it.

I have no idea if I have an inner monologue or not because I only notice it when prompted like in this thread, like noticing youre in control of your breathing. If I had to guess tho I'd say I don't, I mostly think in concepts and images or just have phrases and music on repeat in my head in funny voices.