I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

