War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
War is a contagion.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
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