“Irwin: [while looking at Winter's military collection] Any man with a collection like this is a man who’s never set foot on a battlefield. To him a minié ball from Shiloh is just an artifact. But to a combat vet, it’s a hunk of metal that caused some poor bastard a world of pain.” - Robert Redford in The Last Castle
I find it interesting sometimes how much people glorify war. I remember when it was announced we were going back into Iraq people were running around and cheering at my school. Not everybody, just some people. From what I knew of Saddam Hussein, I thought something needed to be done. Did I know how or what needed to be done? Obviously not. I don’t know or even pretend to know those kinda of answers. However, I found it a little scary how eager some of my friends were to send others to their possible deaths on an errand of death and destruction.
I’m not saying I’m against all war and violence here. However, I feel like there needs to be a point to it as well. This is a really tricky subject to talk about because so many people feel so strongly about it on both sides.
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