Veterans Describe Killing during Wartime | On Killing: Season 1 | Cut 

Allen almost like he pictured it in his head or he visioned it in front of him

what the hell aye same profile pic

You can see things? Waw

martin longford he did u can tell by the way he paused and looked down i would bet all the money in the world he remembered and visioned it in his head..... its not so hard to realize.

martin longford haha why you mad!

Ya in Vietnam they tell you to say that to yourself so you wont think about it

me in cod

aceflo You're pathetic.

@@twixter0 fuck off if you're comparing a damn video game with real life and human flesh people you're a sick bastard.

@@RexTheDinosaur1 you need to chill tf out stop being trigger

Well they must have signed paperwork to do this. But of course I wouldn't ask about killing to a vet. The fear and images must come flooding back. RIP to those who fought for their country and died on killing fields.

That’s the point of this video, they knew what they were signing up for. Its not like they were just interviewing random veterans.

I’m not talking about the people in this video but giving advice to people who might meet veterans out in the world.

I’ve never asked my papaw and I know he is messed up from it I’ve talked abt nam with him but never about death

@@Ash-wi7vn My Papa, God rest him, fought in WW1, lost part of his hand and was left with permanent shrapnel in his leg when he took a grenade from another young man who had pulled the pin and froze in panic. He very nearly died in an African field hospital, his Purple Heart was stolen by someone on the ship home, and when he finally made it they stuck him on a train to travel the country to help sell war bonds as a hero. Fascinating stuff but he would never, ever tell a war story. He refused to replace his stolen medals, and wouldn't allow his preserved uniform to be displayed. He was a carpenter and the kindest, most gentle man I have ever known and I think that the trauma was so deep he couldn't allow it to surface. Even in his late 80s all he would say is "War is proof that the only hell is here on earth." I wish I could have known more about that chapter of his life but I understand why he couldn't speak about it.

It wasn’t about whether they deserved to live, of course they do. They were just conditioned to die.

What side did he fight on?

I understand the sadness your Grandfather had. You can't escape it but you do learn to live with it.

Cristian Sánchez Old men talking about things that could affect millions of people.

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” -Plato

It’s an older proverb and not owned by FDR but nonetheless an honorable figure to use for the quote 👍🏻

I thought it was a quote from Odysseus in Troy

Cristian Sánchez this is a quote that would pop up on Call of Duty when you die In campaign

Pøppy Is A Fall Øut Piløt At The Chemical Disco Ah we had a bomber navigator back in Elementary school and most kids asked him “How many people did you kill?”

That's sad.

@Dewy this isn't a game not teammate it's allies.

Young kids ask really insensitive questions to veterans a Vietnam vet came to our school on Veteran's day and he was crying about a friend whose brains got blown out right next to him and some kid asked what gun was used. Fuckin morons

Do You See It they’re not morons they’re children. you’re between 4-10 in elementary school they don’t have a grasp on those kinds of concepts. They don’t know any better.

Very few go into fast food. Majority of us have good paying jobs. Learn before you comment.

@@mikemitchell6455 Yea many of u also end up on the fucking streets

@@plzitzjustmahcheezits909 true. But the army has a lot of support programs for us. I have respect for that. It shows they care.

We all praise our military and say soldiers are fighting for our freedom. And we praise dumb kids for joining. The amount of innocent civilians killed is ridiculous and not worth it. Being an aggressor in a foreign land is not always defending our homeland. Ignorance is not an excuse. Soldiers ARE responsible for their actions. You should feel bad. War sucks. WAKE UP people!!!

@@zachstarcher3940 🙄🙄🙄 ugh for people like you is why men are such petals today

If it makes you feel better he is in the good place. I promise

I'm really sorry about your brother... May he rest in peace.

May your brother rest in peace 🙏🏾

Rest in peace ❤

May your brother R.I.P 🙏

Not black widow

Wars are not meant to end, they are meant to be continuous. -George Orwell

Facts

@@louis-on5vj yup while smokin a joint

Bob Marley : yeap

at the same time he is talking, he was feeling everything a that moment hoy can see on his eyes the expresión on the face

You mean Jeremy Corbyn

damn true man

I think he would be the best player in COD MW

It's really heartbreaking, he seemed ravaged by those memories

Lonnie is the guy telling us the man to man truth like he’s just chilling at home there is no cameras just you a 30 rack of miller and Lonnie explaining death ☠️

Thank you for your service

I cried. Tears rolled down. I can't say I can start to imagine what he went through, but my heart goes out to him.

I think that if vets talked to other vets, it could help with a lot of the PTSD.

@@somewhrntm i think it would comfort them a bit knowing they're not alone

I felt the same I really want to contribute make a change help the young veterans. wdyt?

I said damn Lonnie you gangster sorry 🙇🏽‍♂️😂

CMFT93 thought the same thing.

Sounded like he was quoting someone else--the way his voice sort of changed at that moment.

Of course he knows they are real people. It's a metaphor. What he probably wants to say is that he acted like they were just targets. He had to shoot.

CMFT93 in boot camp we shoot silhouette targets, and other people I have asked who had been deployed into war zones said that when they see the enemy, they look like the silhouette targets we trained on. So in a sense, yeah it dehumanizes the enemy to where you see a target, not a person with hopes and dreams.

I mean soldiers are taught to dehumanize the enemy. Easier to kill

makes you question about the soul of a human and what happenes in that moment of death.

I was watching the video and read the comments and then I read your comment and the old man said exactly what you wrote that was good timing

DIMITRIOS K same

Ceren *”I killed that boy,” he said slowly, “I killed him”*

Me and my wife just lost our cat a week ago.. the way the older Vietnam vet says there’s a body but nothing there .... was exactly the way I describe seeing our cat once we woke up and seen him in the living room... it changes you in a way nothing else can

I wonder if he’s contemplating friendly fire or if he feels that they weren’t an enemy but more or less people defending what they believe ya know

​@@FL00P Oh

Yeahh, you can see that he really wants to believe it was the right thing to do, so he keeps telling ''us'' but its actually him telling himself that its okay and that they were just targets.. its sad, I see him just as a human being with so much to carry.

I laughed Soo hard

It's easy to tell yourself "ya that guy didn't have feelings or a family or the potential to have a family in the future" but you know it's wrong. I quite frankly don't see the difference between killing your fellow man who believes differently than you and killing your child for their unique beliefs

@@gamerrodz I didn't understand ? But I think you mean killing in the name of religion because we, former Muslims, here are constantly threatened with death

No. He was an innocent victim drafted into a war and forced to defend himself.

2:54 I feel he has to tell that to himself or else he'll go crazy

@@lei23to79 boi i know you own one of those shitty poetic justice shirts

@@cooperbrain yep best free/stolen item of my life

@@lei23to79 i know you ain't stealing shit boi

@@cooperbrain no siree

And even the younger one seemed distressed. War's a hell of a thing.

@@umcaraqualquer3640 He seemed totally distressed and plus he hasn’t had the long years to digest it like the older gentleman

Lonnie fought in Nam which was way fucking worse than conflicts in the Middle East. 60 000 American lives were lost

As someone who has actual experience in this I would say being a part of ending other people's lives through direct actions in war hits people differently and you can never fully be prepared for the psychological impact it will have on you regardless of if you signed up for it or were drafted. Some people are minimally effected by it while others will be troubled by it for the rest of their lives and every shade in-between those two points exist. I thought that I knew what to expect and thought I was fully prepared to emotionally resolve any feelings I would have however events did not play out as predicted. It also was not something that just sprang up out of nowhere as I had trained for years prior to even joining as I had chosen to pursue the special operations side of the house so I thought that I was a very mentally tough individual who could handle anything life threw at me. There are many ways to rationalize ones actions but you do not truly know how you will respond to something until you are experiencing it for the first time. There is no true 1 to 1 preparation for war.

Jude, how do you know that he "most likely was drafted'?

Fax

Are seriously comparing human suffering and complex situations with an anime that can't even be coherent ?

@@benjaminverdier3122 stfu

@@potatopoison1130 imagine writing a comment about how violent humanity is and answering mine with rudeness

@@benjaminverdier3122 you're right but my comment was an observation on war

Those are the eyes of someone who went through too much

That's a real Vietnam flashback

Faking it

yeah dont u think we should support them? for what they've done for us

1,000 yard stare in his eyes.

I always think of this too. I think at the time it was so normal and wars goes for decades or even hundreds of years that they got used to it like slaughtering an animal.

PTSD is also linked to the lack of community and help at home. So the medevil knights probably had a strong community

124madcow that sounds about right. It was also celebrated back then.

@@Beats4needs yeah whether you were killed or killed someone it is seen as an honorable thing for what ever reason they have.

@@loneencom2087 also a different mindset. A lot of these knights trained from birth and were doing it for God. A lot of this is mindset. A lot of Vietnam guys had PTSD cause there was a draft and weren't cut out for it while you see guys in modern wars who are literally mentally built for war.

You support their actions because they are the ones who send the troops.

Percy Blakeney that's like supporting ISIS soldiers but not their leaders.

D R but not every soldier has the mentality of an ISIS pig.

realtrickster _ I would assume not every Daesh scum feels the same way. Maybe some US soldiers killed his entire family or village and he is out for revenge. At that point he doesn't care who he works for to get his revenge even if in his previous lifetime he wouldn't hurt a fly

D R Not at all

That's not right. G. K. Chesterton was talking about ww1. Apart from perhaps the iraqi man, none of these people were fighting in defence of their country.

@@meredith5879 not even the iraqi war

@@mogu8026 you're right, my mistake.

@@meredith5879 heard of 9/11

@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 bush did that

But your thanos. You blasted way more silhouettes

This dude killed half the universe

I’m your 1000th like my guy😭😭

that's what they teach soldiers, mechanically operate without thinking... corruption at it hardest

He doesn't even mean it, hes still coping.

Great movie

Deserve has got nothing to do with it

Amazing quote from an amazing movie.

“They’re not real people, they’re just targets”

@Death The Kid "Unforgiven", Directed and Produced by Clint Eastwood. He also stars in it alongside Gene Hackman and Richard Harris, one of perhaps the greatest films ever made imo. its an Anti-Western that shows you there really wasn't any glory in the old west and that killing isnt all its cracked up to be.

I wanna ask politicians if they love war so much why don't you send your own child to war?

Human nature Kill or Get kill

And you think competition, "competition" in its most generic definition, is something humans created? I would absolutely embrace a reality in which people, when left to their own devices, played along well with everyone else. But, that's naivete. All of human interaction, from the interpersonal to the macroscopic, runs the spectrum of competition... what I want from you; what you want from me; what an ideology demands of me or others; how ideologies conflict; the fact that everything in this world is finite, and thus has a value defined by its desirability and ease of access. There are no heroes; there are no villains... there are just people doing what people do. Little ants milling around in the sun. And, at the end of the day, if you are not willing to sacrifice to protect the things you enjoy or care about, someone else will sacrifice to take that away from you.

kill or be killed*

At the end of the day, one country has to be the greatest. Period. Why the fuck shouldn't it be ours?

I think what you should have taken from this video is that we're all human beings and we do what we have to do to stay alive, we all have loved ones who will miss us when we're gone. It's not about labelling one country as better than another. We are all human, treat everyone as such unless they stain that title with injustice. People all around the world have fought and died for the sake of power and imperialism, we should only fight when we have to, not out of the arrogance in thinking that your country is the 'greatest'.

Kieran He is seeing his memories.

Kieran I believe he is suffering from ptsd

Tomthechelseaboy Nguyen oh ye, I guessed that. never seen it portrayed liked that. the way he seems almost calm and looks like he is watching a disturbing movie while commenting on it.

Kieran Which one?

Kieran which one? lonnie?

That is heart breaking

Yup, the thousand yard stare.

What makes you say that? Because he is contemplating what has happened and what it implies and he doesn't have a clear answer? From my point of view he isn't 'sick'. He is trying to figure out a really big question. Not having an answer or, even better, not being conceited and thinking to know the answer is a sign of wisdom I'd say.

​@@StuhlEntertainmentWhat I've learned about PTSD through my own, and friends counselling is that it's usually brought on by encountering someone malevolent. Even if that person is yourself. Looking back, you look at things you've done and think, "I can't believe I did that." It's like watching someone else do bad things, then realizing it's you, and at the time, those things didn't seem wrong at all.

StuhlEntertainment having ptsd doesn’t make you sick

Gigi Smith ok

StuhlEntertainment you sure?? @6:05

Bruh they we're scared of the tree

THEYRE IN THE TREES

Vietnamese sounds: javahajwgdjbgbegbdgbsgbsgbegbdg fhthfafbf

All for our entertainment

no shit

Steele man, huge fan

Yeah its cold.

That dude was deep the entire time

Thx stalin

La salam comrade

Thanks you :) i want to hear the full story

I know right

This editing way is called "Cross-cutting", it is used to raise up the tension. Maybe they wanted to make it more similar to a movie than a documentary.

jtridexter they have full interviews with these veterans on the channel

@@nedlero8549 but it didn't worked at all, that's just poor confusing editing

all wars are unfair, they ruin the lives of Thousands of people, People who had a life before the war, I am not talking about the dead, I am talking about the people who survived and saw their village or city destroyed, their families dead and the people they knew

That’s hard

I'm sorry for what you've experienced war never solves anything do leaders really think that all of those lifes lost civilians soilders is worth it for a small piece of land?

And I'm not too. I experienced war too and I blame myself for even joining the military.

Whats ur point man ? Killing is the biggest sin u can commit man .... do u think god rates ur killing as good ? Everyone who kills has to think about the life he took because he took something that belongs to god and we have no right to do so .... man

@@prophetdenis8413 I mean thats just speculation because is killing really a sin? Killing is a part of this world and always has been since the beginning of everything!

@@amiralcookie3221 yeah my father (veteran of Yugoslavian „fall apart“) after 25 years is still waking up wet dreaming of things he has seen and done...

@Eric Jungmann so u say ur teacher also stops u from giving the wrong aswers in a exam ? What i want to say is ... see life as a big test to show yourself worthy of paradise ... Edit: im not christian or muslim or anything i simply believe in the "big test" our creator made us for

Well Que They go that fast?!? I've gotta see this......

Well Que same here wtf. this is honest and scarry and all in all an extreemly good vid

AMEN!!!

with that speed the fidget spinner can kill someone or maybe a war will soon use them as weapons hahahhahahahahhahahhahaa

Well Que I swear to God! I only found this today.

Im sure he also throwed a rock at the body just like he did in the video, just to see if he iwas really dead. he was.

damn

He relived the moment when you asked him.

I'm Greek and my grandfather is korean war veteran. He is 89 years old now, was 21 at the time he went to Korea. I'm 18 right now and I love hearing stories from that time. But I dont wanna ask him if he killed someone. If he killed someone I dont want to bring him that memory up.

That's called the thousand-yard stare.

손석현 My grandfather also served in Korea as well as WW2 and Vietnam. In Korea he was with the 24th infantry, the first group of soldiers to reach Korea and engage in combat. I always knew he had killed people because he never ever talked about war. He did an interview about his time in the army and when he was talking about Korea he got kind of quiet and only said “there was a lot of combat type stuff”

They're acting like 80% of redditors

Double A Food Reveiw 😂

@@BlaiyND lmao

Reddit gonna Reddit

Bruh😂

the way he freezes when remembering, thats PTSD but yeah cool story too hear.

Fredrick Holman Nam was the worst War

Nah, WW1 and WW2 were worse.

Costin Pitulice Eh They all was bad tbh

Battling in WW2 would’ve been much scarier and intense especially D-day and knowing the army you’re facing is equal in power to you

Yup

1:15 Dan looks like Count Dooku

Mozambique sucks very random

Zack 50fiftyfree I watch a very wide variety of stuff on RU-vid I am just very interested in war and history

Mozambique sucks yeah that’s cool it was just a random comment

Hey buddy, It really is not my fault that i am ugly to most;) ;) and that many girls,mostly Bosniak girls hurt my feelings by telling me how ugly i am,you know very well what was done to them in the Aggression on Bosnia.......btw(Kosovo Is Not Serbia ) ✌️

I dont know why but when I hear that I remenber of people memes about Vietnam war flashbacks and I realise that not really funny

Lol here we go another Internet mental health specialist

@@jordanleigh6481 Lol here we go another Internet tough guy

@@N-GinAndTonicTM lol mental health is the biggest joke. 60 years ago suicide was way below half what it was in 2019. Since everyone have Bene talking about mental health over the last 20 years people have Been killing the selfs at a rate far higher then ever lol you people are making it worse not better by talking ab3it

@@jordanleigh6481 I'm on the autistic spectrum, I know exactly what mental health is about.

Ya man. Dude was there in the storm . Powerful video

He was so broken when he said that. Like he was trying to convince himself and not the viewers or camera man

That's what training does, it's kill or be killed especially back in vietnam

You dont understand how war works?

Carlie Byrom oh for fucks sake you pussy

I Do Not Hate America,Just The Evil Government (THAT RUINED MY LIFE )(Targeted Me) and made ME look bad ......And ALL Those Who Hurt My Muslim Brothers And Sisters(Btw American Girls Are Fine) (mmmmm). But, I Want To Ask,How Would Serbs And Americans Feel,If We Muslims Did To American And Serbian Girls,(Stretch Them Out) As They Did To Ours? OUR WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS WERE RAPED IN THE MOST BRUTAL WAYS IN BOSNIA And We Suffered The Arms Embargo On Bosnia Also( Injustice)......Also the Srebrenica GENOCIDE will be talked about always.I want some kind of justice for me and all Muslim victims and well any victim of any injustice. I love the girls to much and i wish i can have one...........also Kosovo Is Not Serbia(Shows Peace Sign) Many girls would tell me how ugly i am (even that is not my fault) i love them

Carson's avatar ! From the moments of his Minecraft race when he got baited into that obvious trap ! ahahaha

@@Feezwa not the right time my guy not the right time

@@Feezwa what the actual fuck bro

@@Feezwa what the fuck man

It’s either that or a cynical remark on training. When he brought his hand up to his shoulder and said silhouette, it reminded me of the target that is the head and shoulders. My first thought was dark humor about training and real life applications.

Joey Lats Everybody is..

+Joey Lats There are several interviews with over 8000 german and other axis war veterans, they sadly don't exist in english, because they interviewed everyone on the axis side, from the Waffen-SS soldier to the WWI veteran who was a General in WW2, to german women talking in detail about being raped by soviet soldiers, having their kids die etc. And also someone who was drafted at the age of 17 into the Waffen-SS (not to be confused with the Allgemeine SS who were also soldiers but very very political). That 17 year old like many was drafted, grew up as a teenager in the 3rd Reich and then fought at Normandy with the 12th SS-Division Hitlerjugend (which, eventhough they were almost all 17-18 years old) were so good against the Allies that most US and British vets i talked to told me or wrote in their books that they made fun of them and called them "crack babies". One american vet told me "We laughed about those kids, this changed immediately when we had to fight them because these kids didn't fear death and were far better than our 20 year olds." I hope someone takes the time to take all of these archived interviews reaching from 1980-2017 (and still adding more) to add english subtitles because they're very interesting but also often heartbreaking as these vets but also the women don't mind crying during the interviews or show other emotions. Having grown up with family who reached from Waffen-SS soldiers to Luftwaffe pilots i of course also spent a lot of time listening to them and also interviewing them. The Waffen-SS grandfather is still alive and healthy luckily and i still talk to him and ask questions when i help him in his garden. I hope non-german speakers can watch all of these interviews someday, interesting for anyone i think

Pickle Rick! y do all u americans say that freedom freedom freedom ur not the only free country and they didnt do it for my freedom take a step back an actually see what the reason where for each an every war americas been in an none of them have to do with freedom

To those who upvoted my post. Me and someone else with a big youtube channel on axis history are now working together to present you the 8000+ interviews i mentioned in my previous post with english subtitles. We just started working on translating them. I will update in this comment section when the first one has been uploaded

No Name Jane Why don't you go play Nintendo kid. This is a video for grownups.

I try to imagine but it's hard and horrible

Well said well said true as hell respect.. got my mine

Didn't expected to find a Brazilian here Esse vídeo é bem tocante mesmo, me faz pensar sobre muita coisa, alem desses fatos e marcas que ficam pra sempre na gente, todos os traumas tanto físicos e psicológicos veja sobre Shell shock deve ter sido duríssimo ter pego essa época

paloma t k

They did, however, choose to put the video in black and white.

@@driftingthroughthisplace5898 Yeah extremely disrespectful, am I right?

PTSD

HiHowAreYou I’m glad you have a degree in psychology

weird little shrimp Yeah, it seemed like he was dissociating

@3kDre he is right, these retards are trying too hard to sound smart

@@stralebruklin its not your problem you wont get anything from minding other peoples business

.

Oh well

potato shut the fuck up. It’s kill or be killed.

@@ImSoDapp3r heh

potato Keep your ignorant comments to yourself. They didn’t have a choice then, they got drafted and sent to war

Never feel pity for the enemy Who is trying to kill you and your way of life

@@stec1808 but in reality they were sent there just like the guy on the other side, both sides have soldiers that are sent when the guys at the top disagree, I guess it alright to feel pity,bc they were sent there just like the other person

@@bruhmf8 if you are sent to kill me and defeat my country, expect no mercy or pity.

Steve Slothenstein you know that all these soldoers where sent *there* and not to *your* country? I don‘t really want to argue about that, war is a lose lose situation for every soldier and their families involved

@@NKABoX yh i don't agree with war unless it's necessary to defend your country or way of life but if the time comes then no mercy or pity should be shown.

To me, the part where he then couldn't find the words and just said, "This is hard!" was even more telling. I would like to sit down and really talk to him about life.

Lipgrip Fishing fucking love that old vet

Lipgrip Fishing I was ready your comment just as he started saying it LOL

Ron Criswell same

Actually he wasnt.He was in Vietnam,he was protecting south vietnam from the north. He was in another country protecting it from invaders because that country was our Allie and they asked for help. On top of that theres a good chance he was drafted.

Valeriya have you killed someone before

Hacksaw Ridge

As a greek I think that Plutarchos said that,am I right?

Will Andaya because there is no need for old people to fight a war. They are physically weak

Dionak Gamer no shit. He is not saying that. He is saying a quote

Isnt that soviet russia

Naw bruh that’s just Lonnie keeping it a real as humanly possible 😂😂😂

it will haunt him in his latter years.

I heard that when you’re alone and just lost in your thoughts, it will haunt you

Because its his job and he knows it

@IDGAF TWisY he’s obligated to murder people?

@@ramiere1412 yes he's a sniper, snipers kill people if u go in a war and don't expect to kill people your not on this planet

Not supposed to Forced to

@@Dctctx It's called orders.

@@dmitrit.4862 that’s what I said

@@dmitrit.4862 When someone is forced to go to war, and refusing to would get them sent to federal prison, they are forced to do everything. When someone enlists and understands what they're signing up for, it's orders because you are willingly signing that you'll follow all orders for X amount of years. Compare Lonnie and the other Vietnam vet. One appears much older. I'd assume the younger one went towards the end of the war whether enlisted or drafted. And I'd bet all my money that Lonnie was pulled in one of the first lotteries, back when people barely knew about the hell going on over there.

@@Cris-em9tn Being drafted is definitely different compared to enlisting. And I understand that those who were thrown into a war see orders like "being forced" to do things and in some way, it actually it is that way. But orders are orders and someone has to do the job, no matter how ugly it gets. My grandpa, for example, fought in the Red Army in Russia and later even in Berlin. He was forced to fight because there was no other way. He was a machine gunner. He couldn't really talk about it, all I know is that he killed a lot of german soldiers back then. War is hell, there's no doubt about it, that's why I have the upmost respect for any veteran, even for the german ones my grandfather fought back in WW2.

The answer is in your question itself

Lada Zendlová you know why 👀

You answered yourself 🤷‍♂️

Lada Zendlová they preparing us

Same

JaleelJohanson62 These men killed for nothing as wars wil never cease utili men like these refuse to fight

Exactly it becomes a fight for survival no matter the cost.

JaleelJohanson62 stop making stories up lol

Hernandez 13 lmao

Jimmy Torres he got a wild imagination dude gota stop lying to himself😂

war is worse then hell...the only people that go to hell are sinners (if you believe that in sort of thing) nobody's an innocent bystander in hell....most of the people affected by war are innocent bystanders

War is not hell. These people in the video deserve no sympathy THEY are the hell.

in my experience, veterans love to talk about their time in the service. they love to reminisce. you just have to know what questions to ask and what NOT to ask. How you ask is important as well.

mcaval73 stfu

mcaval73 major respect for them talking about it. I'm a coward bc I can't bring myself to talk about what caused my P.T.S.D., SINCERELY, Tiffany Lancaster

Yaboi Beeler 😂😂

Different ways to cope

I didn’t notice that transition😂

That was so funny 😂💀

😂😂

Yes and it looks like they didn’t know they were going to be asked that question... not cool

I agree, this whole video seems rude.

only a few can understand them

You’re a hero

my father killed 16 people in the bosnian war and afghanistan and we never discuss it with him. it’s the most respectful thing to do

Another youtube psychiatrist.....

OBIPPO another person who can’t see the obvious, such a shame.

What happens when weaklings go to war, those should stay home

@@thepolites3876 he was a Vietnam Vet, many men were drafted for that War, so I'm sure he may not have ever been prepared for what he had to do

Jesus...

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+Obiarshi What can we do, exactly? We don't choose to start wars. And those who push for it do so with the belief that others will fight it for them.

***** But how does that help? I try to help people however I can, I try to be nice, but how does that change anything? For every one of those people who genuinely are good people, there are fifty more who couldn't care less about anything else as long as they're satisfied. We have so many ways we can help the world, each other, but it never works because we're all so selfish we refuse to give up what we have in order to make a change. A group is only as strong as its weakest member. Forgive my cynicism, but I can't help but think there is little hope left for us.

+KellseyAlexHipo You can't change others, and many can never be helped! All you can do is try your best while not being used! do small things around your community to help, help an elderly person or volunteer at a sou kitchen, things you control and know actually help, when you give to big groups you know they don't do what is promised so control what happens by doing for those in need by you!

MrCRAIGSHILL It's funny you say that actually, because I do try my best to help people when I can, but I recently started realizing I'm a little too naive for my own good. I'm turning 18 in April, and my mother has been scolding me more and more often for the things I unthinkingly do. For example, I'm apparently not supposed to walk around with money in my hand, because someone may try to take it. I do plan on volunteering (I recently donated blood for the first time at my school), but I feel like I've lost faith in humanity and just want life to end already. Today, I read three stories in the news, one of which included a man beating his wife and throwing her out naked into the streets for talking to another man, another man claiming his infant choked on a used condom when he'd actually put his private part... *sigh*, and a couple who attempted flushing their newborn baby down a toilet before dismembering it and throwing it away when it failed. I'll try to be good, I'll try to help, and I'm sure there are others who want to make a difference, but I see no hope for us.

Okram G it’s called disassociation. For many soldiers it’s how their brain deals with their experiences. It’s like the older gentleman with glasses said, in the moment he shot a silhouette, just a target. Many veterans brains are able to sub consciously stop their thought process at it was a target. It’s the body naturally keeping them sane. But most of them cannot maintain disassociation their entire lives. In the video the Vietnam Vets were not disassociated like the younger men. For most veterans the older they get the harder it is for them to disassociate.

@@4uck7h3Stat3 too good of a reply, thank you. Just wanted to make a point of how death can be talked about on such a emotionless level. Your answer 100% explains that.

His innocence was taken at too much of a young age that he's mind couldn't process everything properly so at some point the brain just stops trying and it's at that point that he was just rendered numb to everything

@@nkosinathikhumalo3399 the interesting thing would be seeing how his interactions in a social environment would differ

Nathan Khumalo or he just didn’t care

i feel like they’d have to sign up for this type of thing tho yano

@@cameronthemaneron784 I signed up for defending my country and people. As a lot of others, and a lot of others ended up killing people on the far side of the world. And "a lot" came back broken. Man is not supposed to kill man.

Toni L i meant the interview dawg

Toni L they signed up to talk about their experience

they ask this to share... and i believe ppl here is ready to tell the story

i was sweating lmfao terrifying

@@joemungus6063 I am not gonna lie but same xD

I think it was just unexpected. When guys answer me like that, it always takes me a split sec to understand the angle of their approach. Its not that they have me sweating. Its just part of dealing with an asshole. The question didnt deserve an answer like that. And if youre going to serve and be proud of serving expect questions from people. Kids in particular want to know. No need to be the shitty unapproachable step-dad type. Theres nothing wrong with "yes i did, but i dont speak about it. It was something between he and i and ill answer for it later." Why agree to do an interview and be a defensive punk?

@@miguelmarquez4192 huge ignoramous i see

He sound mad at interviewer

That’s a bold claim.

In Russia, you no make joke. Joke makes you, therefore your mom and pop are jokes.

then it's working, zeke

For real

z3k3 im replying to one rn

You haven’t scrolled deep enough.