'American Sniper' Stirs Controversy Over Protagonist's Stature

[livingonearth]

1. I'm not going to try and judge Kyle, but I don't understand his type of soldier.

The soldiers in my life weren't so quick to talk about killing, let alone write a book about it. In fact, they avoided the subject of war totally. My father never wanted to talk about anything he had to do in WW2. My cousin hated to talk about Vietnam. They didn't think it was right. With my wife's father it was the same. He stopped the conversation if it was about his time in the Second World War.

The fact that Kyle wrote a book about something every other soldier I have ever known avoided makes him very different to me. And, something tells me it's not a healthy difference.