War-guilt at the Collective Level

Two years ago, I started feeling really bad, about the war, in Iraq. It felt like I was filled, with lava, and, got electrocuted. The center of my eyes, the pupils, also got very small. I got anxiety, suicidal and, got depression. I read there is thing, called collective guilt, which happens when soldiers return, from bad wars. You can see the center of eyes, get smaller, in the soldiers.

When they return, every-one gets small pupils, even babies. It means there is guilt, very extreme, from mass-murder.

Have you got this ?? It is often confused, with PTSD, but it is guilt, and can, be very devastating, for the ones, that are already ill.

jbb

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I’m a non-combat veteran. Never heard of this guilt hypothesis. I’ve always associated beady eyes with intense focus.

I’ll be at a VA facility in less than 5 hours, talking to many combat veterans. Maybe I’ll run this by them to get their feedback.

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You can help them by getting them Rosaries - Soldiers like to go to war, with God on their side - Also, it slowly removes the Guilt - It has helped me, get over, all this Guilt …

I was in the mental hospital with this guy who’d been to Viet Nam. He said that while he was over there he felt “like God”. I think he was referring to the power of life and death he had over the local population. I saw this guy on a television special about Viet Nam, and he said that if you give a nineteen year old boy an assault weapon, let him see his buddies get killed, and they’re fighting an enemy who hid among the civilian population, and then tell him to differentiate between the noncombatants and the combatants, it ain’t gonna happen. He’s going to shoot the first thing that even resembles a target. This Viet Nam veteran had a bad case of the shakes while he was in the hospital. It was probably from guilt over the things he’d done while he was over there. Of course, we can’t put that guilt on all Viet Nam veterans. I think about two-million of our men served over there, and that gives the possibility of a lot of different situations - different relationships between the soldiers at a firebase and the local population. A lot of the situations were very ambiguous. They were fighting an enemy that hid among the civilian population. I was reading about this guy who had been a helicopter pilot while he was in Viet Nam. He said he realized he could only know about the other helicopter pilots. The infantry soldiers he co-habited with were having a completely different experience.

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I made a song, about it –

TyM

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