Prince Harry explained the reason why he revealed his Taliban kill-count in a new interview. The Duke of Sussex claimed in his memoir to have killed 25 enemy soldiers during his two tours of Afghanistan – calling his victim “chess pieces”. Speaking to People, he speaks out about his time in Afghanistan, saying he needed to get it off his chest as part of “his own healing journey.”
The Duke of Sussex told PEOPLE: “I don’t know that you ever fully reconcile the painful elements of being at war.
“This is something each soldier has to confront, and in the nearly two decades of working alongside service personnel and veterans, I’ve listened to their stories and have shared mine.
“In these conversations, we often talk about the parts of our service that haunt us — the lives lost, the lives taken. But also the parts of our service that heal us and the lives we’ve saved.”
He continued: “It’s a duty, a job, and a service to our country — and having done two tours of duty in Afghanistan for my country, I’ve done all I could to be the best soldier I was trained to be.
“There’s truly no right or wrong way to try and navigate these feelings, but I know from my own healing journey that silence has been the least effective remedy. Expressing and detailing my experience is how I chose to deal with it, in the hopes it would help others.”
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