"Christopher M." wrote:

> DEEP SPACE NINE: "Return to Grace" - 12/07/95 - ACT FIVE 51.
>
> "KIRA
> ...I've already been where you're going.
> I've already lived the life you're
> choosing. Fighting hit and run,
> always outgunned, living on
> nothing but adrenalin and hate.
> It's not much of a life, and it
> eats away at you so that every day
> a little part of you dies."
>
> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)

It always amazes me how soldiers and resistance fighters can return to
civilian life. War changes you, no doubt about it. I saw it in my dad,
a WW2 vet. A part of him was changed, but he had a profound respect for
life and wouldn't kill a fly. It wasn't that he was just sick of
killing, he refused to allow his experience to change that part of him
that respected life. How he did this I don't know. I don't think I
could. Once exposed to killing, I don't think I could ever turn back
and have the same respect for life. And it wasn't just my dad. We
recently deported a former Nazi concentration camp guard for murder.
This man lived an ordinary life here, never killed anyone here. So it's
possible, but I don't think I could do it.

"Livia" <livia@uniserve.com> wrote in message
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> "Christopher M." wrote:
>
>> DEEP SPACE NINE: "Return to Grace" - 12/07/95 - ACT FIVE 51.
>>
>> "KIRA
>> ...I've already been where you're going.
>> I've already lived the life you're
>> choosing. Fighting hit and run,
>> always outgunned, living on
>> nothing but adrenalin and hate.
>> It's not much of a life, and it
>> eats away at you so that every day
>> a little part of you dies."
>>
>> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>
> It always amazes me how soldiers and resistance fighters can return to
> civilian life. War changes you, no doubt about it. I saw it in my dad,
> a WW2 vet. A part of him was changed, but he had a profound respect for
> life and wouldn't kill a fly. It wasn't that he was just sick of
> killing, he refused to allow his experience to change that part of him
> that respected life. How he did this I don't know. I don't think I
> could. Once exposed to killing, I don't think I could ever turn back
> and have the same respect for life. And it wasn't just my dad. We
> recently deported a former Nazi concentration camp guard for murder.
> This man lived an ordinary life here, never killed anyone here. So it's
> possible, but I don't think I could do it.
>

No, you couldn't. Only because you make such a big deal out of it- not that
it's necessarily a bad thing. You should realize that it's a big deal but
at some point they left it behind and decided not to be bound by past
behavior that occured under different circumstance.