Quote from OldTrader:
I've seen guys in the past who thought they were unafraid, but once they saw what was involved in war, they could not deal with it. We had a guy in our unit through training, who was with us for a year or so...then suddenly went AWOL and we heard he went to Canada. As you know, our unit was entirely voluntary, so the guy volunteered, then discovered something that made him go AWOL.
Saw the same thing when I arrived in Viet Nam...anther guy who I had been through training with, who balked within a week of arriving in country...at the SFOB in Nha Trang. So it happens.
As I said before, I think this guy reached a point where he found out enough information that he had a change of heart.
You know, it isn't as though everyone doesn't have feelings of fear. The question really is how you deal with it.
OldTrader