I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
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 does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
It is far easier to make war than peace.
War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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