I AM a former Active Duty (4)  C/A Marine, with another 14+ years as an Army Reservist.
There IS a thrill, like NO OTHER, of DEALING death, while MISSING the Reaper's sickle, by inches.  In one's 20's one feels invulnerable.  Someone ELSE'S misfortune isn't MY problem; sucks to be THEM.  Better them than me.

Then they look at their OWN sons, as they hear the steady propaganda of those beating the war-drums, and they begin to realize they were USED, like a tooth of a gear, in a giant machine that has no REAL care or concern WHATSOEVER, except to justify YET ANOTHER war somewhere, for the benefit of a comparative handful, who will NEVER allow THEIR sons to "join-up"; because they all KNOW it's a BUSINESS; nothing more; and nobody cares.

Maybe THEN it will stop....