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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.

No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.

War is a contagion.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

War is in the eyes.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.