Can anyone truly know war before they have experienced it? Even I was surprised at the brutality of battle the first time I experienced it, and that was after many, many years of training and preparation. [Then again he hardly enlisted as a simple soldier - though the cruelty he's experienced ought to have made him even more prepared, he thinks.]/small>

--I have heard that serving a cause is a high honor, true, but it is almost always from the ones who require service.