Fantastic, amazing words from Mr Mark Twain.

Mary - It would be best for veterans to recognize that the people they slew on the battlefield were other young people just like themselves. Some of them do realize it. I know some who do. If they still wish to celebrate and remember, then they should celebrate not victory, but the enduring of common humanity, and the survival of the common hopes and dreams of all the decent people who have been harangued and deluded into going out and killing their brothers and sisters needlessly for these last many thousands of years.

What good is patriotism if it denies the humanity of other human souls?

- LH