Brotherhood from a Soldier perspective (EN)

War is a scourge of our society. However, it allows us to understand some things about human being. Brotherhood is on of them. Let’s try to analyze this from an american soldier perspective.

As we know, a large number of soldiers return to their country with deep psychological disorders and many end up killing themselves because of that. In fact, there are more soldiers dying after war than during the war times. Specialists, who study these situations, and tried to help their war veterans, identified over the years several reasons for that.

One of the reasons they talk about is the alienation felt by these men and women. They left their families to fight for the country, to fight in name of freedom - as they believe - and never return or, when they have the chance to came back, aren´t the same man or woman they use to be. In that sense, there are many soldiers testimonies talking about missing war.

Some of this guys cannot keep strong enough to go through these kind of feelings and death seems to be the only solution to stop their suffering. So, why is that? Why can’t families or psychiatrists help these guys? Why they feel alienated from society?

In war, soldiers learn to give more importance to the lifes of others than to their own.

Perhaps we may say that the true meaning of unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (“One for all and all for one”) it’s real in battlefield. The hardest times they have there, create a special connection between those men and women. Furthermore, most of them face death head-on, and the regular adrenaline feelings shared with their trustful “brothers”, create something special that changes these human beings forever.

When they return back home, they lose that brotherwood feeling, but just can’t erase it from their minds. War changes their brains so profoundly that, when they get out of it, do not feel to belong anymore to the regular society. They miss that sensation as a drug addicted miss drugs.

In fact, seems harder than that, feels like to push human beings to the worst limits, facing death, seeing friends dying and all that suffering changes forever the person they were before. So, we should question ouselves: more than a problem with these guys, we are facing a problem as a society. There is no reasonable justification to accept war as a normal thing in the 21st century.