This article is not about judging the soldiers or war heroes. If there is anybody to judge it is you and me and us for allowing the war in the first place.
Today came to me a thought about the soldiers and the so called war heroes. And actually I was looking at the phenomena of brainwashing of the people throughout the centuries into believing that the soldiers are the war heroes, seeing only the positive in them, have mercy for them and be completely blind to the negative and destructive aspect of the war and being a soldier.
The main reason for it is that we allow ourselves to be brainwashed but because it is being done very clever ( especially in the modern times when this kind of brainwashing is intentional and is being conducted according to the advice of the best specialists from the field of psychology ) thus we don't see it. But no matter how clever the brainwashing techniques are, we are the ones who don't want to see the reality of the war and we hide behind the energetic veil through which we only see the positive ( war heroe ) and 
don't see the brutality and the violent aspect of it even though it is right in front of our eyes. We are looking at it but we don't see it because if we saw it then we would feel guilty for allowing it and not doing anything practical to stop it. And this is the sad phenomena about it.
Thus let's have a closer look at the soldiers ( war heroes ).
Most of the human being react at least in mild shock when they see somebody hurt, injured, covered in blood etc. And this is the daily reality of the soldier on the front line. Thus what is happening here ? We have a human being ( soldier ) who is faced with the brutality, violence, dead bodies, pieces of thorn human flesh, explosions of bombs and who is in constant fear of death and it is common that many of them throw up ( which is rather mild reaction ) or even literally shit their pants out of this fear and this shock. Thus you either get used to it quickly ( which is rather fucked up from the point of view of psychology ) or there is a chance that you will freak out and even get crazy. And when this happens you will not be able to maintain your integrity as a human being and you will do lots of shit which you won't read in the books of the war heroes. This shock, guilt, fear which is inside of you and you don't know how to deal with it will make you kill innocent people, go on the killing spree, rape women, kill children etc. because this will give you temporary relief from this constant feeling inside of you. And you will justify it as ok.
Why do you think the army is giving the soldiers lots of antidepressants ?
Although it is not heavily popularized topic in the media we can read about it on internet ( of course many things are kept strictly in secret behind the door of Pentagon ) and last year I have read that the US army has spent a substantial amount of money on 
researching and developing about the antidepressant nasal spray to counter the increasing number of suicides among the soldiers. Why do they commit the suicide ? Answer it for yourself.
Thus this is your war hero that you welcome home with the highest honours and respect for being this wonderful and brave saviour of you and your country. I bet that you have rarely ( if ever at all ) thought about it in this way !!!... have you... ???
I have never been in the army ( because I have refused to participate in this shit and kill other people ) and thus I don't know all the details about the war and the shit that is going on there. But it is a common sense and it is easy to connect the dots. Of course under the condition that you want to know it because as I said before you keep yourself blind from seeing it and you are being cleverly helped with it by those who are interested in continuing the war because it gives them huge profit.