re: #262 Mich-again
It wasn’t from combat, he said he was never in a firefight. I don’t know what caused the radical change in his attitude. You tell me.
I don’t know him, so I can’t say. It might have been culture shock. Most people who go to other nations *on something other than a resort or ‘party’ vacation) come back with a better understanding of how other parts of the world live and think. But a few people who are exposed to the kinds of extreme cultural differences between places like the US and Afghanistan recoil angrily and and decide that ‘those people’ are simply bad.
Just my 2 cents, take it for what its worth.