re: Question for combat veterans that actually watch war movies

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Talked to an old timer, 92 at the time, who had landed on Omaha Beach first day. He said he was able to watch Private Ryan till the end but laughingly admitted he almost pissed his pants during the landing scene : those sounds of bullets everywhere, he called it a pinging sound, was scary as hell. He also commented on the smell, something that can not be duplicated in movies. The smell of cordite was almost overwhelmingly powerful as was the smell of blood, it was everywhere.

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This only sort of pertains to your post but it's a quiet saturday morning, I'm smoking a bowl, and this topic has me feeling all reflective for some reason so frick it.

What those guys experienced was orders of magnitude more intense than anything I ever saw and their mission was actually critical but looking back it just feels reckless. Like wtf was I even doing there (obviously the WW2 guys probably didn't ask themselves this)?

It might be part of the reason a lot of guys don't talk that much about it. It gives me the same feeling I get when I think about drunk driving back then. "what the hell was I thinking?".

Not trying to take away from how anyone else feels about their time.