No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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