War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.