Who Form 944 Pr Veterans 2011-2023

I'm gonna ask and try to answer a somebody's kind of an uncomfortable question both civilians obviously and soldiers suffer in war I don't think any civilian has ever missed the war that they were subjected to and I've been covering Wars for almost 20 years and one of the remarkable things for me is how many soldiers find themselves missing it how is it someone can go through the worst experience imaginable and come home back to their home and their family their country and miss the war how does that work what's it mean we have to answer that question because if we don't it'll be impossible to bring soldiers back to the to a place in society where they belong and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war if we don't understand how that mechanism works the problem is that war does not have a simple neat truth one simple neat truth any sane person hates war hates the idea of war wouldn't want to have anything to do with it doesn't want to be near it doesn't want to know about it that's a sane response to war but if I asked all of you in this room who here is paid money to go to a cinema and be entertained by a Hollywood war movie most of you would probably raise your hands that's what's so complicated about war and trust me if a room full of peace-loving people find something compelling about war so do 20 year old soldiers who have been trained in it I promise you that's the thing that has to be understood I covered war for about 20 years as I said but my most intense experiences in combat were with American soul in Afghanistan I've been in...