OK so I HATE war. Looking at it on paper, the statistics lagistics blah blah blah I can understand in someway why people do it, but the realization and reality of war is disturbing to me. The idea that anything is worth all the hate destruction, death and dislocation, the wiping out of cultures, the families left to pick up peaces, the unavoidable innocents killed, mamed or left lost in the world, it's all just beyond my comprehension. It literally tears me up. I understand to a degree why the us is at war, though I cannot understand why this particular location supercedes so many others when it comes to supposed liberation, I can also understand why so many people in the middle east have picked up arms against the us. This leaves me torn between loyalty and love for those fighting for the us and my empathy and compassion for those fighting back. I just cannot come up with a justafiable reason for war. I cannot come up with a justifiable reason to take another life in hate, intolerance or ignorance. I hate war. I hate the inner conflict it leaves. I hate the mindless support of destruction, I hate the loss of life I hate it all. Memorial day is coming up when we set aside a day in the US (not just to through a cookout people) but to remember those who have served and died. It is for me a day when I set aside time to reflect and try once again to understand why all those names have to placed on a memorial to begin with, why so many lives are cut short, why so many are left to go back to their lives so changed and so bitter. Why so many families are left to find strength to move on after loosing their loved ones to battle. When monday comes around, no matter what part of the world you live in, take a moment just to remember that people, real people and most often young people, have died defending something, following orders or simply for an ideal of somesort. PLease don't forget the families left behind on both sides. Never forget that for all the griefe passion and hate there is on one side, there are people just like you with those same emotions on the other side. Perhaps if more people understood that war is two sided and leaves the same griefe on both side, more people would see just how pointles it all is.
I HATE war!
I HATE war!
