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I feel your father was and still is right on.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on August 28, 2015 at 5:14 AM | link to this | reply

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Yes he was, WileyFriend. Thank you...

posted by Katray2 on August 27, 2015 at 2:42 PM | link to this | reply

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Powerful comment, Dear Kabu..war is so destructive to the masses... I tense up every time I hear the war hawks banging the drums for an attack on Iran louder and ever closer...Thank you for reading...

posted by Katray2 on August 27, 2015 at 2:41 PM | link to this | reply

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Sadly yes, TAPS. Thank you for reading...

posted by Katray2 on August 27, 2015 at 2:38 PM | link to this | reply

Katray2

War was just about as he explained it, straight talker your dad.

posted by WileyJohn on August 27, 2015 at 1:25 PM | link to this | reply

I grew into the same sentiments about the Vietnam war where we in Australia had conscription...if you were born on an odd date not an even, you went to war for 2 years. It was sold to us very easily because not so many years before, Australia came close to falling to the Japanese invaders...but gradually I realized these people just wanted their homeland back after the French had occupied it for too long.What on earth wwere boys that I had grown up with and danced with doing there. Then the American Gi's came to sydney for R&R leave. They spent all their money because they said why not!. They were going back to die.

I had another break down over it.

posted by Kabu on August 27, 2015 at 1:03 PM | link to this | reply

It does seem that war has always been, and that it will always be.  Is that what we call Humanity? 

posted by TAPS. on August 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM | link to this | reply

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He reminded us of this truth often so I guess it stuck. I wrote the poem in my teens and it was fresh then and events over the years have reinforced his lesson. Yes, sadly, the same though one hopes enough voices mustered will penetrate the war machine. Eventually. Thank you for reading, C C T.

posted by Katray2 on August 27, 2015 at 10:44 AM | link to this | reply

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Well stated, Bill, Thank you...

posted by Katray2 on August 27, 2015 at 10:36 AM | link to this | reply

Sadly when young one does not realize what your Dad explained so poignantly.

I remember the Korean war and some of the lads were so eager to join in the action.

It has aways been the same, of course if one is in the forces at that time there is no option.

posted by C_C_T on August 27, 2015 at 10:35 AM | link to this | reply

War is the antithesis of love.

posted by BC-A on August 27, 2015 at 9:26 AM | link to this | reply