"It takes 300 years to build an army that's admired and respected around the world. But it only takes three years pissing about in the desert in the biggest western foreign policy disaster ever to fuck it up completely".

This quote, taken from the middle of page 71 of this terrible play, actually meant something to me. It made me realize that, as an ignorant American, I was unable to truly take something from this play that I regarded as meaningful. To these men, and since it is based on a true story, real people, they were fighting for something bigger than themselves because they lived in a "peaceful country". They really were, in effect, fighting for world peace, which is the reason any nation goes to war. As Americans, we forget at times that war is not a solution to most problems. Not only that, war is most often, in this country, a facade for our selfish alterior motives. It's difficult for me to comprehend what it must be like to risk one's life for the benefit of a country that could care less about the survival of the little people. These men's stories are worth reading because we are able to see from another perspective how a war, especially an unnecessary one, can ruin the lives and reputations of even those who have the best intentions, without anyone caring.

Just ask them.