Ask HN: Has anyone here lived in a war zone?

If you have, please share your experiences. The HN community could use the data; it might have an impact here.

Most of us probably have no real concept of what it is like. For us, it is just 8-word news titles. Some bodycounts, but always disputed.

I think it would serve us all to actually recognize what destructive conflict is really like. Then some people might be less quick to agree with actions which create pain and suffering for large numbers of other humans.