He was doing his best to self medicate. That’s him trying to convince himself the medicine is good. Nothing comes close to combat. Nothing. There’s such an oce

He was doing his best to self medicate. That’s him trying to convince himself the medicine is good. Nothing comes close to combat. Nothing. There’s such an ocean between the sickening frantic chaotic competition with Death and “oh shit if this rock slips I’m going to end up a paragraph on page two of the morning paper”. Plenty of us combat vets climb, and for the same reasons. Don’t be confused. Climbing can kill you like cigarettes, combat is like smoking crack while trying to land a jet on a carrier deck at night in a storm.