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[Stickyfingers]

Originally Posted by Loke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your friends are probably full of shit. I personally have spent a considerable amount of time in some of the worst parts of Iraq, and even then, it wasn't FFA. Sure, you can take some creative liberties with the RoI - but some people who have you believe that the entire country is like a modern day Mai Lai.

My experience has been that 99% of people who come home and tell war stories are full of shit and telling fairy tales - because most people that do have real war stories don't want to or feel the need to talk about it with friends/family/random people who weren't there and thus wouldn't understand it in a way that would make it worth talking about.

Agreed. My neighbor was a Sniper in Fallujah during some of the really intense portions of the war, when Fallujah was a real hot bed. I asked him about it, and he didn't want to talk about it and just said it was crazy.