It's all theater, Confluence.
Respectfully, I don't want to get into a deep conversation about this as I'm struggling with my thoughts and feelings on the matter. I didn't want to share this, but maybe this will summarize the root of my consternation. I feel as if my service was given to a great lie. Two brothers I served with lost their lives to a great lie. Now what? I'm supposed to cheer as these same asshats package up our sons and daughters and ships them off to yet another bullshit war to die, physically maimed/disfigured, or completely ****** in the head that if they do make it home. they off themselves to the tune of 22 per day on average.
Again, I put this out there as a statement not a conversation. No validations, please. I couldn't stomach it, frankly.