AS MUCH AS I HATE TO BE THE ONE TO SAY THE "I TOLD YOU SO"S WHEN THEY COME UP, SOMETIMES I HAVE TO. SOMETIMES YOU NEED IT. SOMETIMES YOU DROP ALL OF THE HARD WORK YOU PUT INTO THE REBELLION, ABANDON YOUR COMRADES IN THE MIDST OF THE MOST TENSE TIME IN THE ENTIRE WAR, AND DECIDE YOU WOULD RATHER SPEND YOUR TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY THAN GET OUT THERE AND TAKE SOME GOD DAMN ACTION TO PROTECT THEM. AND SOMETIMES, DESPITE THE WARNING FROM YOUR COMMANDER WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK HE'S TALKING ABOUT, YOU DO ALL OF THAT AND YOU'RE *STILL* SURPRISED WHEN A CONCENTRATED LAZER STRIKE FROM A CROCKERDONE BLASTS A HOLE THROUGH YOUR HOUSE AND DECIMATES YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY WHILE YOU'RE STANDING OUTSIDE TENDING TO YOUR GARDEN. AND I THINK I'M PRETTY FUCKING JUSTIFIED IN GETTING TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO ABOUT IT. BECAUSE I DID! I DID TELL YOU SO!
Would a single soldier's presence have prevented it Perhaps they weighed the options And they would rather die with their family than learn of their deaths later
SPOKEN LIKE SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE SHIT IS, LET ALONE HAS EVER BEEN DEEP IN IT. IT'S TERRIBLE THAT HER FAMILY GOT KILLED. I KNOW. BUT THIS IS *WAR.* EVERY PERSON THAT SITS ON THEIR ASS AND DOESN'T FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT IS TEN FAMILIES KILLED. THAT'S THE REALITY OF IT. SHE SAT ON HER ASS, AND HER FAMILY WAS ONE OF THOSE TEN.
I am not sure that cause and effect tracks But it does make excellent rhetoric I understand the importance of your fight commander And it is true that I have never experienced war But I am reticent to cast dispersions on the victim of a given tragedy If nothing else it is not good optics for your remaining troops Especially those who served with her