Soldiers' deaths are always hard
In wars, people die. KIA is short for killed in action.
But even in the military, most people don't see it or haven’t seen it. The folks back home only see it on the news. And, in fact, the vast majority of civilians can’t understand it; they think they do, but they don’t.
Even in the military, the vast majority of troops know about it but have never seen the dead soldiers. As for me, I saw more than 100. I was at Quan Loi rubber plantation, where they came in about 35 at a time, just killed less than an hour prior. Mostly, only those in front-line infantry divisions have seen death from combat, other than vehicles being blown up. The front-line infantry troops see the real battlefield, or jungle, and have experienced it.
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