War is hell. We all know that. But unless you were a veteran who saw it on the front lines (like the World War 2 vets who cried during the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan), it was often pitched to the masses as that sort of John Wayne, code of honor and patriotism thing. My dad is even retired military, involved in every war from Vietnam to the first Gulf War and I didn’t even imagine how brutal it was. We’d watch movies like Bridge Over The River Kwai at the local military base theater, where tough, charismatic men fought nobly against a cartoonishly evil foe>
That illusion of grandeur started to crack with films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, but what really broke it down was a combination of social media and movies like Black Hawk Down. I attempt to capture that aura of senseless violence in a scene from my book The End of the World.

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A division of the Texas Federal Reservel gets massacred.