I think we should be very grateful to the people who go somewhere prepared to fight for our freedoms. And supportive of their families who worry about their safety.
Our forces may well go somewhere knowing that with that posting comes risk, but should their death or injury mean less because they went into a situation knowing it was possible. I don't think it's wrong for us to see processions for coffins and grieving families - can you really expect them not to be distraught because they were in an environment where they could get hurt. (you could say the same of people who get hit by cars crossing roads, hope their family's not too upset.)
The armed forces don't choose to go to war, they offer to serve so that we can be kept safer. Politicians send them to war, rightly or wrongly, with or without the correct equipment, and with the possibility that the truth about what they do may never be told.
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