Independance day

Jul 03, 2005 17:12

On this Independence day weekend, I finally got around to watching Saving Private Ryan. I just finished the movie, and my first reaction is a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Perhaps I don’t watch enough TV to be desensitized to mass, corporeal violence, but I have never watched a movie that physically affected me as much and as long as this one. How can any who has seen this movie ever think war is glorious? I know that modern warfare can be quite technical and maybe less dangerous for the soldiers, but it’s still war and people die. It’s unjust that the poor, clueless young men have to bare the blunt of decisions made by people who don’t have to fight wars themselves. How can so much violence achieve peace and is it worth the lives of all those who died along the way? If war is about bringing freedom, then why do so many young men have to lose their freedom? Although it’s unrealistic of me to wish that there will be no more wars, I just wish that there will never be something on the scale of a world war III. My heart goes out to all those who have been in war or will be in war and the sacrifices they had and will have to make for this country. Whatever hard decisions or experiences I’ve gone through is nothing compared to those in war. Maybe the best way to avoid wars is to place the decision to start them in the hands of people who have been in a war or will be in one, and then see if war is still considered an option.
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