No excuses

[sylvan8798]

moooop, isn’t the very title of the thread suggesting as much?

{Wikipedia} In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable—or even admirable and superior—by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

@barrons

Just getting it done.

Yeah, that certainly expresses the outcome we all admire. And in a way that suggests any other alternative is pretty namby pamby making excuses for yourself.

As to tutumom2001 quote:

Some of them probably never had the mental toughness to deal with war in the first place and never should have gone.

Any time I have heard words to this effect, they were generally accompanied by a phrase such as “It’s his own damn fault, he never should have gone there (or been doing that, etc.) in the first place.” To me that places it back on the soldiers themselves.

Not only are they weak, they should have known better than to get themselves in that situation. Our society looks down on weakness, particularly in men. Buck up, don’t be a sissy. We also laud our soldiers as being the bravest of the brave. How are they to reconcile our expectations and their own expectations with their ultimate reality? Apparently, many of them can’t.