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I disagree. The very act of listening to someone with that level of pain, a level so great he was about to end his own life, and similarly listening to the pain of the other person with the same intensity, that's where the beauty lies.
As if that woman was the first person to talk to him. Even if he had somehow lost all his family and friends back home, he would still have had some comrades in arms. And if he had been abnormally lonely it would have - should have! - been in the story, but it wasn't. No, the point was not the act of listening, it was that the girl was hot.
There are plenty of war veterans, especially from WWI and WWII, who didn't speak to even their own families about the torment they were going through. Many veterans to this very day don't seek help and bottle up their trauma. Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, has an excellent podcast about this on their Big Ideas website, perhaps you should take the time to listen to it [1].
Your comments are ill-informed and frankly unhelpful. The rate of suicide for veterans is twice the rate of the civilian population. A cursory Google search would lead you to Wikipedia which has a well sourced article detailing the rates and research into the problem [2]. You might also want to look at the PTSD article [3].
1. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/shell-...
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veter...
3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorde...