Does anyone here have sympathy for these soldiers? Within a year of invasion, we knew the mission in Afghanistan was over--Bin Laden escaped to Pakistan and the Taliban was all but defeated yet, the war continued. The mission in Iraq was also bullshit because weapons of mass destruction did not exist. However, even with ALL of this PUBLIC information, Americans continued to sign up for the military and many of those signed up because they wanted to deploy in the Sandbox. That means these people signed up to go slaughter innocent Afghani and Iraqi civilians--what other reason could they have? Does an economic opportunity provide a valid excuse for those who signed up voluntarily to slaughter innocent people (GI Bill, etc)? In my opinion, because the information about these wars was wide-spread and PUBLIC--everyone who signed up to serve in these wars is complicent in this debacle and deserving of ZERO sympathy.