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.
He's the prince tho?? He wasn't drafted! He's talking like he just woke up there and had to fight his way back to :england-cool:
Because the Royal Family are a bunch of decaying Feudal ghouls, he really kind of was drafted since Royal men are expected to serve in the military and I'm not sure saying "I don't want to" to Lizzie "I'm only not a dictator because Parliament cut Charlie I's head off" Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Mountbatten-Wetlin-Hanover would have been an option for him.
He still should have pissed right off but I know the pressure a military family can bring to join and the Royal Family does not seem like a loving or tolerant place to grow up.
Classic example of how these social structure fuck people up on both ends, all the more reason to abolish the monarchy.
But you know, there was the expectation that he join the military and go off on adventures murdering people defending their own lands. Otherwise people might think he was a pansy or something!