How has serving impacted you?

If you want to have your heart broken, go over to Twitter and spend an hour or so reading Tweets like this. Apparently the US Army failed to understand that old saying, "Never ask a question you don't want the answer to."

War is Hell, and thank God I never served. I'm not naive and I understand that we need to have a strong fighting force and that sometimes war is a necessity. Do we need to do more for our troops? Absolutely, and we need to remember that war should always be used as a last resort and that often times, the survivors have it much worse than we could ever imagine.