My Uncle was a Marine in the South Pacific theater in WW2. He would never talk about killing people, but did tell us about invading islands (he was shot during the invasion of Pelelu), and nearly being over-run by Japanese troops multiple times, etc. Even among his Marine buddies, he was considered a major badass. I have little doubt that he killed Japanese soldiers.
My wife worked a few cubicles down from a guy who got drunk, went the wrong way on the Garden State Parkway, rammed a church van head on, killing several on board.
Coincidentally, Patsgarage (is he a member here? Definitely is over at the other place) came upon the crash site and tried to get some of the folks out of the church van, but the van was already engulfed, so there was nothing he could do.
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