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Learning to kill isn't enough; soldiers must want to kill.
Chicken-keepers admitoto mixed emotions when confronted with sick hens, and learning to kill them humanely is not easy.
About learning to kill at close range rather than from a distance, he wrote: "It adds a whole dimension of sadness to a man's being.
I met Grossman, who is the author of "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society," outside Washington in February at a seminar for the Diplomatic Security Service, the protective force of the State Department.
His current publisher, Otto Penzler/Harcourt, will bring out Fiddlers, the 55th and last in the 87th Precinct series, in September, and Learning to Kill, a collection of five decades of stories, next spring.
Now he devours books like Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" and Dr. Shay's "Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming".
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It was not in the heat of battle but with these hapless human guinea pigs that Cardona learned to kill.
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