Blood! Blood! Blood!
Submitted by antarchi on September 20, 2009 - 09:49
“The Army trains you to be this way. In bayonet training, the sergeant would yell, ‘What makes the grass grow?’ and we would yell, ‘Blood! Blood! Blood!’ as we stabbed the dummy. The Army pounds it into your head until it is instinct: Kill everybody, kill everybody. And you do. Then they just think you can just come home and turn it off. ... If they don’t figure out how to take care of the soldiers they trained to kill, this is just going to keep happening.”
Eastridge - a US infantry specialist now serving 10 years for accessory to murder, said it will take a lot to wipe away the stain of Iraq.
