This Is What War Does To People

This isn't a condemnation of this Marine. Hell, I could literally post every day about similar cases. This Marine is not to blame. Bushco is to blame.

Open about how Iraq has changed him, Brill commented while playing poker at an Elks club that the challenge of killing enemy fighters took the fun out of hunting deer. "I'd rather kill a person," he said. "I love the hunt."

Fellow Marines have told him he needs counseling. He does not feel the need.

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