It seemed to me essential not to be afraid of that number. So my number is 25. It's not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me," he wrote, adding that the number came from six missions during his second tour in the country.
Harry claimed that the army engrained the idea that the Taliban members he was fighting against were "chess pieces" in him.
"I made it my purpose, from day one, to never go to bed with any doubt whether I had done the right thing… whether I had shot at Taliban and only Taliban, without civilians in the vicinity. I wanted to return to Great Britain with all my limbs, but more than that I wanted to get home with my conscience intact," Harry wrote.
Hide the PTSD Harry is going to be fun when he can no longer suppress it.
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my personal all-time disgusting Brit racial slur is the "fozzy wozzies" for the islamic Sudanese rebels in the 1890s Mahdi revolt (I think? that Battle of Omdurman stuff you know), because of their beards and general appearance.
man I hate the fuckings Brits so much it's unreal.
I remember hearing that a lot as a child in reruns of Dads Army because they treat Lance Corporal Jones's (who thought in Sudan in the British army as a young man) racism as just being a joke and never censor the out of date racial slurs he says. So I went around repeating it like it was a normal phrase to say (:disgost:) because no one ever explained to me that it was racist.
Did he think he was invading the British commonwealth of Pakistan, or just didn't have a specific slur for afghans and grabbed the closest one?