It has almost been a decade since Prince Harry was forced to come home from the front lines of Afghanistan amid safety concerns but this week the royal revealed the heartbreak he felt in 2008 still stings.
During an appearance on Good Morning America 31-year-old Harry opened up about his military career and the circumstances in which he had to leave the battle field and more importantly his comrades.
“I was broken,” he told GMA’s Robin Roberts of being forced to leave. “I didn’t know what was going to happen to them and then suddenly I find myself on a plane that’s delayed because a Danish soldier’s coffin was being put onto the plane.”
What the Prince saw on his way home rattled him.
“While I’m sitting there, I look through the curtain in the front, and there’s three of our lads wrapped in plastic, missing limbs,” he continued. “One of the guys clutching a little test tube or whatever it is of shrapnel that had been removed from his head and he was in a coma, clutching this thing. And I suddenly thought to myself, ‘People don’t get to see this.’ I never in those 10 weeks, I never saw the injury part. I only heard about it.”
