One thing that I’m often disappointed by in popular media is the use of what I refer to as “The Punisher Trope” when portraying former military characters. We’ve all seen this one on TV at least once: character joins the military believing in the cause; while deployed he gets into some sketchy program usually run by a smooth-talking but slimy CIA spook who has him do some shady stuff that later turns out to be just as awful as the people he was fighting; he returns home broken and scarred,

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