A lot of people ask me what it's like to be a Combat Infantry Vet. What's it like to go to war? What it's like knowing that at any moment you could die? And what the question I hate the most....Did you kill someone? For years I've tried to avoid answering other than saying, "I did my job". I was okay with that being the answer I gave and the lie that I've told myself to get through each and everyday since returning home. That was until the Department of Veterans Affairs denied my claim for Disability Compensation, stating that none of my issues/contentions were combat related..Hmmph..Who know that killing people for a living didn't qualify? That being the case...my honest answer, the honest truth, and my response to the VA: I usually try to avoid I was raised by parents whose only want for me, was to one day be grow up and prove to the world that the experience of truly being loved and truly being in love only elude those too afraid to risk encou
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