The Speech

"Welcome back home. All that you see below you -- the bars, restaurants, beautiful women, entertainment venues -- still stands because you went to battle with our enemies and you won.

I know that going to battle costs you something. I know you will feel strange coming home after having camped in the field and killed other men in violent confrontation and may not feel you really belong in such a peaceful, civilized place anymore.

You may feel you can leave the field of battle but it never leaves you.

Please visit the temple and get checked by a physician. Some of what you are feeling is likely rooted in physical ailments from your trials.

There is mental health care available. You can make an appointment to help you learn to feel love again with one of our priestesses.

Don't force yourself to try to pretend you feel normal. People will understand if you remain cagey and don't like crowds. I have set aside a special time for soldiers only to visit the marketplace and we can have things delivered if necessary.

Please contact my secretary if you have pursued all the standard means to help you adjust to being home again and still can't adjust.

ALL that you see below you could look like the blood soaked, torched field of battle you just left and the blood would include that of women and children and the cost would include the destruction of our entire society.

Feel okay about what you have done. I am forever grateful for your service. Power comes from the people and my people wouldn't exist at all without those who guard us from invaders.

Please eat, drink and be merry. You are not only as entitled to enjoy our kingdom as any other citizen, you are more entitled. We exist at all because you did your job.

You are hereby invited to the feast at the palace tonight to celebrate your return."