User blog comment:Sgt.T.N.Biscuits/Capturing the true face of war/@comment-1009967-20100720201950

I can hardly imagine the psychological impact of seeing a planet glassed and hundreds of people being vaporized in the blink of an eye. The feelings of watching a thousand lives just. . . end. I suppose each man and woman would have their own way of coping with it, provided they didn't go insane. Some would joke, others seek solitude, and after a while of surviving, you could almost become used to it if your mind just begins to accept it. I guess this is comparable with how soldiers now and in the past have dealt with loss and the reality of war. It may be something you can't grasp until you live through it. Try finding the published journals or memoirs of a real soldier. I gained a lot by reading the journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, one of the men who fought through D-Day.