Go Your Own Way

In the movie, Hurt Locker, they show how emotionally difficult the war in Iraq can really be. Lots of soldiers don't really show what they really feel inside. You'll see multiple times in the movie many soldiers breaking down at different times. Whether it's in the shower or on the job, they all have there breakdowns. The question is will the soldiers ever recover from what they see and do in Iraq?
You'll never know what the soldiers go through until you actually go threw it, but you get a sense of this through the Hurt Locker. one soldier that has an interesting take on the war is SSG James. James throughout the movie is always is a hard ass. You'd think he has no emotions whatsoever. One scene in the movie sticks out to me. Out of anger of what happens to his young friend, he is on a mission. James takes it upon himself to go after the person that detonated the tank and things get interesting. They split up and hear Eldridge in some trouble. Some guys take Eldridge, and James shoots him while shooting at the two guys carrying him away. After that night James breaks down in the shower just thinking about the war and everyone that is hurt by it. 
In an article in This Emotional life says this, "These soldiers say  ‘that they are just not the same – don’t know why, but they feel changed, and the important stuff around them has changed.’  Combat will do that to almost anyone – everyone is changed, for better or worse, and sometimes both better and worse. These are not the great traumas of the war, but much more corrosive micro-traumas: an inability to relate in comforting and familiar ways and the tendency to feel like an alien when doing the most ordinary things." This sums up the way the soldiers feel when they're there and come back after a long time in Iraq.
Things can get rough in Iraq when you know every time you go out, your'e just rolling the dice to see if you'll come home that day.This Youtube video i came across really shows how the soldiers of this movie were impacted in the war. The soldiers sometimes tell themselves to "go your own way". But that could often lead to more lonely days.