Lyric discussion by Denimeister 

Cover art for Replica lyrics by Sonata Arctica

Yeah, i agree. Because he says "I won the war" :) I think your right.

winning the war is often more traumatic than losing... to win means you have killed many more people to reach this victory... it is a bitter victory to the soldiers and sweet to the leaders of the country of course who don't go through the shattering experience of killing millions of other people who you have no quarry against but because it suites the country they are suddenly 'enemies to be annihilated'

so the war has definitely changed and scarred him