Comment by kace91
10 months ago
The included descriptions of the battle’s aftermath are haunting.
As much as movies and documentaries usually reflect the horrors of combat itself, they rarely deal with the aftermath - not lights out in an adrenaline fueled moment, but lying for hours in a random patch of land no longer having a mouth, trying to cry for help knowing that no one will come until dying from exposure and maggots.
This was the reality for millions of young people; still is. Let’s hope we never see it firsthand.
These days there are drone recordings of wounded soldiers in Ukraine sometimes ending their lives using a hand grenade or their gun.
And several weeks ago whole Russia celebrated a video of knife fight between an Ukrainian soldier and a Russian soldier lost by the Ukrainian who at the end dies from his wounds.
The video of the russian drowning in a ditch.. haunting..
Such deformity and mutilation may result from an errant jump on a dirt bike. I intend to fly because it is there, it is the right of children to be free. Do a flip. And, yes, some will break a jaw or crush a testicle like a grape. We are not meek souls.
You point out agency yourself, which is indeed the differentiator. Combatants in wars are rarely on the battlefield by their own choice or design.
Everyone has a choice.
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Okay? What a weird flex. How does this relate to anything being discussed?