“My words are not dangerous, but the spin of my words is very dangerous to my family,” the Duke of Sussex said.
Harry served in the British Army Air Force for ten years where he was twice deployed to Afghanistan and rose to the level of captain., Harry called his victims “chess pieces taken off a board, bad guys eliminated before they kill the good guys,” and said that he did not feel “ashamed” for his actions because he’d been conditioned by the military to not feel anything.
Prince Harry mans the 50mm machine gun at an observation post on Jan. 2, 2008 in southern Afghanistan.“You can’t kill people if you see them as people,” he wrote. “They trained me to ‘other’ them, and they trained me well.” When Colbert noted that news of Harry’s military killings was not new information, Harry went on, “Almost ten years to the day my face was splattered all over the front pages because someone asked me the question, while I was still in Afghanistan if I had killed anybody from an attack helicopter. And I said ‘yes.'”Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images, saying he chose to share it in a bid to reduce veteran suicide.
“I made a choice to share it because having spent nearly two decades working with veterans all around the world, I think the most important thing is to be honest and to be able to give space to others to be able to share their experiences without any shame,” the 38-year-old said.Harry’s blasé recollection also sparked outrage from the Taliban, which called for him to face trial for war crimes.
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