WILL WE EVER LEARN.......

When the excitement of war is gone, reality sets in.  

Everyone dies, nobody wins.

As I ponder this little poem I just wrote I am almost overwhelmed with the absolute insanity of war.  Reflecting upon the millions of people that have died I cannot  think of anything in this materialistic world that could justify their deaths. How many people would I be willing to kill in order to preserve my comfort and security?  A thousand?  A dozen?  One?  How many people would I kill for a cause; whether politics, religion, money, power or territory?

One might argue that governments or other forms of leadership are at fault. History is filled with  people that ruled and were responsible for the deaths of our fellow humans..  Certainly none of them personally killed millions.  So who does the killing?  I do.  You do.  We all do their killing for them or stand by and do nothing.

The question I ask is, why do we (the people of the world), continue to kill each other?  Will it ever stop?   Will we ever learn?  Or are we just lemmings racing to our destruction?  I guess I'm fairly disgusted.

Marshall K. Warren RA 18571901
Formally a member of:
82nd Airborne Div;  25th Inf Div (Airborne); 2nd ABG, 503rd Inf CT   (1959 to 1965)