Sadly, some do not.
My enlistment was up after my first really bad deployment, and I got out.
For about a year after that if I was awake, I was drunk, and probably most of the times I was asleep.
It was definitely a dark time. Seemed like every time I saw light at the end of tunnel, it was just the train.
I was fortunate enough to have some good people who literally kicked my azz until I got it and my head wired together, and I started shi#@ing rainbows and re-upped.
I have always deflected with sarcasm and still do, and I still hold things in WAY too much.
At least I've managed to fool people into thinking I'm a well-adjusted malcontent.
Now I just torture and annoy the good shiny people here on ECF.![]()
Seems to me some people go through the darkness and come out dark, others come out determined to be the sunshine.