I don't think my grandkids even know that I was in the war at all. Most of the old men who discussed the war said they were recounting their war experiences for the first time, and they spoke with a mixture of ache and relief. Some seemed happy in the twilight of their lives to talk about the specters that still rattled chains in their minds, but they could not discuss quite everything. But we also endured awful experiences ourselves. By all accounts, those experiences changed the veterans of Omiya, so that the arrogant young men who left for war returned humble and chastened, and in most cases ferociously hostile to war itself in any form.
Humans are so stupid.
You do terrible things, and you regret them later. At first, humans seem so smart. And in reality they're such idiots.