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You do not know mental anguish until you miss a years worth of holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and special events, listen to the joy in your wifes voice when she first answers the phone after a month of not hearing your voice, only to be followed by crying and tears 15 minutes later because of time limits, getting pictures of people who look like your kids, but they are much too tall to be them, cursing every calendar you see because it reminds you that you have been gone for 172 days and have 193 days until you're done, or working a minimum of 14 hours a a day for 365 straight days. Well, minus a two week leave period.
Things get worse when you are supposed helping a country that's people just don't give a #badword# about themselves and will never care. People that you learn to resent because the culture they embrace is as backwards asut can be, and in many ways just plain evil.
To top it off, watching people and politicians wave their stars and stripes and sing their praises in one breath, yet turn around and use the conflict as a political tool that cuts across the grain of untold amounts of blood, sweat and tears. That makes ANYONE that has ever 'been there' know that fighting a war sucks. Notice I nevermentioned an operation, that is the easy part of being deployed
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FLVOL
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