This is one of the things that puts the rush-into-marriage-when-you-find-out-you're-being-sent-to-war thing into perspective. At first I thought it was really romantic and guys did that to assure themselves and their girl that everything would be fine when they got back. But I know now that all that does is set themselves a trap. Unless they really, REALLY know the girl and would want to marry her anyway, doing the rush-to-marry thing is NOT GOOD. They don't really think about the repercussions, and the next thing they know, their bride is lonely, confused and angry without him and goes and fucks all the new guys on the army base. So now the guy is thousands of miles from home in a totally foreign world, his wife - who he is already confused about - is cheating on him if not leaving him, he is scared shitless of coming home to that, and he's already kinda dishevled about what "home" even is anymore. So all of that piles up, he begins to see a major fear about going home and being without what he perceives as the safety of military commission, and in a moment of fear and doubt, he pulls a trigger. It's funny how some things make you see the light. Thank God my soldier is a smart one. He'll marry me when I tell him to, not when he gets called to duty again ;) 1434
