I was not around last year when this thread was started but I find it very appropriate during these times. With them desensitizing of people to the absolute violence of war and the suffering it brings it is good to remind folks that it isn't a viseo-game of movie where the actors go home to their families, because they either don't or only a part of them returns.

Mark Twain was a pacifist and vocal in his oppositon to Teddy Roosevelt's, et al, uncomphrehensible thirst for blood.

Bobert