User blog comment:Sgt.T.N.Biscuits/Capturing the true face of war/@comment-59290-20100720211457

This is where you come down to the difference between men and boys, as you can observe by watching the movie Jarhead. In said film, Jake Gyllenhaal's character does not kill a single soldier, witnesses only a second-hand death, and still continues to whine, moan, and bitch about all his "hardship" and "psychological trauma" while Jamie Foxx's character re-ups for tour of duty after tour of duty despite having a better job as an alternative. Some men are just born hard, others become that way, and still others will merely remain pussies for the rest of their natural lives. And that's what makes a true warrior: the ability to cope with the death. Of those around you, of your enemies, you name it. If you are unable to cope with death, you will not be as effective a warrior. Conditioning, of course, coupled with experience could easily remedy this.

Of course Nylund's characterization of "oh, 1000 of my brothers and sisters in arms died yesterday... I'm just dandy" is completely wrong, but it's certainly not impossible to cope with that figure. Just look at the guys who stormed Normandy beach 64 years ago.