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I might not mention that my interview sample included a cross section of all WW2 vets. Only a small percentage of those who served in WW2 actually saw ground combat. Using a sample of ground combat vets only would probably not support his theory.
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It was active combat vets that he surveyed. Grossman in fact lists the activities the non-firing vets engaged in during the fighting.
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As for kids becoming operant conditioned by video games, this is scary. Are we raising a generation of airheads that can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality?
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It's not that they can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy. It's that according to Grossman, by engaging in the fantasy in such realistic ways as many games today are, they are being conditioned to be insensitive to the real thing when they see it.
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The test of character is not 'hanging in' when you expect light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty, and persistence of example when you know no light is coming.
- Vice Admiral James Stockdale, USN (ret.)
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