Why Most Veterans Don’t Tell War Stories
A firsthand account of the horrors soldiers keep to themselves
Published in
7 min readNov 10, 2019
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
— Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide In The Trenches”
