/lit/ - Literature

>>13581927

Lots of sick, dead, and dying kids, one of my friends get blown to bits by a car bomb, a Somali gunman whose arm I practically blew off with an M203.

desu the latter two didn't really affect me all that much (it's hard to describe but the training kicked in and I basically turned into an emotionless robot in combat, didn't feel panic or exhilaration, only thought about stuff like "cover that sector" or "clear that room") but the dead kids... That's something they can't prepare you for.

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 that Jeff Mangum and a lot of the posters on /his/ seem to, 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.