It is truly a shock to the senses the first time one experiences something like that, especially in your own neighborhood.......
Not to diminish your experience, Signs;
Just imagine the visuals, smells, and sounds our combat troops will live with FOREVER............help them by UNDERSTANDING what they might have gone through. Unless you've actually been there, it's impossible to know, but you CAN understand....never coddle, just understand....in order to survive the insanity of war, they have to harden themselves against all those sensations of combat. It all can come out when they get 'home'.