Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
Killing is the payoff of war.
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.