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PTSD is a real thing – your writer has it – but what causes most veterans to suffer isn’t the bad memories – it’s the good ones! They miss who they were, and who they were with! To find the same level of friendship in civilian life as you did on the battlefield is a near impossible task. And most of Britain’s veterans transition into jobs which could be charitably described as ‘fucking shit.’ 

The army is a kind of Never Never Land, where you don’t need to ‘grow up,’ and the transitioning soldier has to learn to live all over again – who knew there was such thing as a water bill?! What’s property tax? And what do you mean we can’t just thump someone when we fall out?!