IT is important to always realize that history is an embellished truth. Often what really happened was really disgusting and so people convert history into something more palatable. It is one reason soldiers that come home with various degrees of PTSD which some recover from and some don't, don't usually want to talk about their wartime experiences where people were blown apart, wounded or died.
Because there really is no good way to cope with killing or blowing apart other people up close. For them it would a little like walking down a city street and counting off people and making half the people get guns and then all shoot each other until most of them all were dead.
And then the person you are talking to who is a veteran you are asking him what it was like to kill people and watch their bodies fly apart from grenade launchers.
If this was me I wouldn't want to talk about this either unless I wanted to throw up and have bad dreams the next week or so. This is reality.
So, History always has to be a watered down version of hopefully the truth.
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