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You are fucking awesome. People like you are why I'm able to write this

I remember everything prior. The thing I imagined were a mixture of reality, horror movies, personal fears, and hospital staff (I didn't know that at the time though). Ever a year+ later, I still ran into people from my nightmares, and they would be a cardiac therapist or some other doctor. Melding reality with dreams... scary shit

VBIED, what could you have done. Don't worry mate, I'm a grunt

My sympathies. I lost half of my jaw in a VBIED blast in Afghanistan, and they rebuilt it out of my hip bone.

Don't do it if you aren't mature. If you aren't sure whether you are mature enough to do it, you aren't. I have seen kids get mentally destroyed, among other things. It's not Call of Duty