I follow the blog Angry Staff Officer, and I was horribly saddened by a recent guest post there. ASO is a blog by a staff officer, and a lot of the posts are about being an office. Now and then there is a hilarious military analysis of the latest Star Wars movie. This guest post, The Growing Emptiness of Service, really hit me though. It’s about an soldier’s disillusionment, his loss of faith in his mission. It is horribly sad.
It looks like “over there,” when the whole point of being “over there” was so that it wouldn’t happen over here. But happen it does.