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When They Call For War

April 7th, 2015

I once said, " If war solves all of our problems, shouldn't we have solved all them by now?"

Everyone seems to be so quick for blood.   There are some just hungry for a fight.
What too many people think of war are nice neat images like this.

This is the picture of combat.  Brave, fit bold men with medals.



The images below are what I see when someone bring up the subject of war.  This is what I see every time someone mentions war to me.
 
The carnage of war.

The lost limbs
The reality of war.



The images above are what I see, a great deal of the time.






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