Many of the more than 7,000 responses to the tweet paint a complicated portrait of the realities of military life.
When the United States Army's official Twitter account asked,"How has serving impacted you?" it may not have expected veterans and their loved ones to respond with sometimes brutal honesty.
"At the age of 20, my unit deployed to Bosnia. I witnessed the aftermath of a genocide that the world let happen for over 3 years. Walking the streets of Zvornik under constant fear of being shot by a sniper, topped off with standing over mass grave sites of slaughtered civilians," wrote @DebonairMick, later adding,"I’m proud of my service, but this is often what it is. You don’t see that on the commercial or in the recruiting office.
Twitter user @danika_renee14 wrote:"I am 23 years old and my mom still refuses to open up about her experiences in Desert Storm. it has closed her off to emotion and affected our relationship more than you know." User @TarHeelInNYC, said she is a social worker on a hospice residential unit where a patient is a Vietnam vet."There are signs posted EVERYWHERE warning staff to leave him alone when he's asleep; and to NOT be within striking distance if we do have to wake him up, lest his PTSD gets triggered."
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