That's a powerful post and he's good at putting some dark and secret thoughts a lot of vets carry into words.
I love my life I have now, but sometimes I wish I was back over there helping out too. (DS/DS 90-91, 10th MarRegt)
There's a very interesting aside in the first chapter of
The March Up where General "E-tool" Smith offers to stand a watch on the gun for the exhausted troops in a Bradley. The young trooper looks down and shakes his head no. "It's our war, sir," he said.
You can't go back. You want to, but you can't.