What is the private life of war?

My ideas about this phrase are still fairly similar to what I originally said in the first entry. However, having read the books on the syllabus I feel that sometimes even if someone's story is made public, through a book or through photographs such as the ones taken by Farah Nosh and used in Nadir's The Orange Trees of Baghdad, their story is still a mostly private one. Unless you read these books or stumble upon the photos, you are not likely to encounter these stories, only the ones that are shown in the mainstream media, of soldiers and insurgents, which we are so detached from, they seem like stories not real events.

If the private is the story we don't see and the public is the one we do see, there can still be public private stories as described above but can there be private public stories? I guess there can be in that there are war stories that are very public such as this president or that prime minister sanctioned this or that action but we don't know how these actions affect them personally. For example, someone who gives the order to resort to go to war will have their story told many times over in the media. The private side of this story may never be told though. Do they suffer from night terrors over the people who have died because of their order? Etc. Many politicians and civil servants now publish autobiographies and memoirs but how accurate are these? Is what they publish the true story or just what they want people to read about them? Sometimes the only way to know a persons true story is to be that person or extremely close them. This is the case in Sakamoto's One Hundred Million Hearts Miyo does not learn that her father was a kamikaze pilot until his after his death because he kept his life of war so private.

So, in conclusion, sometimes the private lives and the public lives can exist together, although this is rare. As I mentioned in the original post, there are factors which affect people for many years after the war is over and I would have liked for of the texts to have dealt with this, especially the mental health problems experienced by those who have witnessed first hand wars and conflicts.