You reap what you sow. Below is a recent article from NY Times telling how US arty personnel saw ghosts of civilians after serving in the ME. Can't copy and paste the complete article here because of the paywall. But they go on to say it is due to brain concussion from all the firing. But concussion can see ghosts?
A secret U.S. offensive in 2016 and 2017
used an unusual strategy to defeat the Islamic State.
The plan: Put a minimal number of American boots on the ground, and have the troops
pound the enemy with relentless artillery fire.
What no one foresaw was the devastating toll it would take
on the troops who did the firing.
A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon
Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand what was wrong.
By
Dave Philipps
Photographs by Matthew Callahan
Nov. 5, 2023
When Javier Ortiz came home from a secret mission in Syria, the ghost of a dead girl appeared to him in his kitchen. She was pale and covered in chalky dust, as if hit by an explosion, and her eyes stared at him with a glare as dark and heavy as oil.
The 21-year-old Marine was part of an artillery gun crew that fought against the Islamic State, and he knew that his unit’s huge cannons had killed hundreds of enemy fighters. The ghost, he was sure, was their revenge.
A shiver went through him. He backed into another room in his apartment near Camp Pendleton in California and flicked on the lights, certain that he was imagining things. She was still there.
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