Under the guise of defending national security and national dignity, the government recruited a large number of patriotic youths into the army, and then they were sent to terrorist areas to maintain peace. Only through personal experience did patriots know that the so-called "peace and justice" are secondary contradictions. The main contradiction is "interest and prestige", and in the process of fighting terrorists, countless civilians have also suffered. When you eliminate a terrorist and take the lives of several innocent civilians, do you feel that justice has been defended and terror has been contained? no. The soldiers on the front line are actually always in a state of panic, and their spirits are always in a state of high alert. The battlefield is cruel. If you cannot destroy the enemy, it means that you will be destroyed by the enemy. The behavior is not so much killing the enemy as it is self-protection. Under such a mentality, it is even more difficult to balance the three relationships of self-protection, destroying the enemy and protecting the innocent. So, these actions are a kind of killing and re-killing.
For veterans, the physical wounds caused by war are painful and even irreversible (for example, the second class in the play), but the psychological damage caused by war is fatal and permanent. , immersed in the smoke of war for a long time, in the roar of artillery shells, in the screams of comrades in arms and terrorists, in the anxiety of self-protection and enemy control, a kind of war inertia has been generated psychologically. As a result, after being discharged from the military, many veterans cannot get rid of the edge of reality and the battlefield. All the noises around them can easily be transformed into gunshots and cannons after being filtered by the ears. People who move a little too much around them will be regarded as imaginary enemies. This kind of neurological trauma directly leads to their tendency to violence, which not only affects their own health, but also affects their own health. Seriously endanger the safety of family and society. What's more serious is that the long-term mental stress has caused many veterans to feel suicidal. Tommy, who has been drinking and making trouble for many times and finally committed suicide in the film, is a good example. From this perspective, the dead in the battlefield are more fortunate than the wounded veterans who return triumphantly. At least their pain is only for a moment, and the pain of the veterans often accompanies them for the rest of their lives.
Faced with this reality, the government's primary problem is how to provide psychological counseling to the veterans as soon as possible, give them humanistic care, and let them get out of the shadow of war as soon as possible and reintegrate into a normal life. Adopting a stop-loss policy in order to avoid loss of profit is tantamount to rubbing salt on the wounds of veterans, allowing them to face their fears and nightmares again. When I have to enter the dangerous battle again and say goodbye to my relatives, my previous sense of honor and pride is gone, replaced by endless grief and helplessness. I wonder how many of the more than 80,000 veterans who were forcibly re-recruited due to the stop-loss policy in the war on terror were willing to do so?
Although Stephen in the film re-enlisted for his future on the surface, he also lost his love and his helplessness was written on his face. In the end, Brandon chose the latter between fleeing and re-enlisting because he thought fleeing would make him lose himself, but why would it be different to choose the latter? He smiled goodbye to his relatives, but what melted into the smile was only bitterness and helplessness. What's even more sad is that the severely disabled private's younger brother has also been recruited into the army. What will be waiting for him?
War is cruel and ruthless, but can the creator of war be a little bit human?
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