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Heard of a friend of a friend whose brother was badly injured in Afghanistan and is back home now and unemployed. The soldiers killed for nothing in Afghanistan may be commemorated on some forlorn war marble monument somewhere in fifty years. The maimed and injured won't. I recall as a kid older family members talking about the First World War which they could remember and I knew about from school history classes. That was a different scale of conflict and a wider spectrum of consequences. In fifty years from now who will remember the mentally and physically scarred and maimed from Afghanistan? A handful, if that. It won't be taught in the schools.
Some day the living will envy the dead.
ReplyDeleteWe do no have wars like we used to.
We now only have slaughter houses.
We are killing ourselves in order to save ourselves.
On average one Afghan vet is committing suicide each day.
How can this be acceptable?
I suppose it can be acceptable in the same way as the gun laws in America. Institutionalised insanity.
ReplyDeleteYes, people have come to accept it.
ReplyDeleteKilling is a way of life now.
Death toll reports from Afghanistan come and go now.
Casualty rates are never spoken of.
They do not want the public to see their loved ones without limbs, or without a face.
A coffin is more acceptable now.
What have we become?