American Sniper - Boekje Pienter

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there are also a lot of positives to military service. We’ll both be
proud of them no matter what they do.
If my son was to consider going into SEALs, I would tell
him to really think about it. I would tell him that he has to be
prepared.
I think it’s horrible for family. If you go to war, it does
change you, and you have to be prepared for that, too. I’d tell
him to sit down and talk to his father about the reality of
things.
Sometimes I feel like crying just thinking about him in a
firefight.
I think Chris has done enough for the country so that we
can skip a generation. But we’ll both be proud of our children
no matter what.
Settling in Texas got me closer to my parents on a permanent
basis. Since I’ve been back with them, they tell me some of the shell
that I built up during the war has melted away. My father says that I
closed off parts of myself. He believes they’ve come back, somewhat at
least.
“I don’t think you can train for years to kill,” he admits, “and expect
all that to disappear overnight.”
DOWN IN THE DEPTHS
With all this good stuff going on, you’d think I was living a fairy tale
or a perfect life. And maybe I should be.