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How to talk to your children about combat experience

My son keeps asking me if I ever killed anyone and I do not know how to answer him without lying or destroying his innocence.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The collision between a parent's protective love and the weight of witnessed truth creates an impossible choice between honesty and harm.

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