Alive Day

There are so many soldiers that now have the ability to recover from a tremendous degree of injury and readjust to civilian life thanks to the evolution of modern medicine. Doctors have the ability to synthesize new muscles and bone structures to the point that people can basically come back from the dead. The question that comes to my mind is are they better off? Are they better than the soldiers in Civil War who had the 1/4 chance of not surviving? Sure, the soldiers today survive the horrors of war and live to talk about it, but do they want to? I remember the soldier in the movie Alive Day who had lost both legs and an arm, and said that had he lost one more arm, life would no longer be worth living. I wonder how many of the soldiers that survive the war wish that they hadn't. It can't be easy, to live with the memories of death and fighting, to live with the guilt of surviving when so many others do not. To live with the recollection of war fresh in your mind every single day of your life. To know that there is no forgetting. These soldiers must live with the physical pain remnant of their injuries and the psychological pain associated with the memory of war.