pre-deployment 2005
Young and eager, that was me, 29 years old and young. I'm now 33 and old as can be. I suppose it's true throughout history, no matter what nation, clan, sect, or movement… get’em young, feed them the stories of the glories of war, we’ll let them figure it out later, while they lay killing and dying in dreams that hold no glory spoken of in innocent days past.
I fed myself on the books and war movies, tails of gallant Knights and selfless heroes, how naive, how full of myself I was… Until I learned the truth…

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