Killing is something that few members of our military are actually called upon to do. The vast majority do jobs focused on generating understanding, facilitating decisions, and implementing a multitude of different actions, most of which have nothing to do with killing. All of these tasks, however, are fundamentally focused on succeeding in a deadly business that is unlike any other in America. No one understands that unique burden and the sense of otherness it entails more viscerally or takes it more seriously than the men and women whom the rest of the nation asks to do its killing and
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