A simple and honest statement.

[sabrinaseyes]

I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war

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[sabrinaseyes]

I understand that good things come out of bad circumstances. That is pretty much something that I've always been told. Looking at World War I, the main cause of artistic, musical, and literary development was due to the disillusionment people felt after World War I. So I suppose I should be grateful. Look at the entire Lost Generation- such Fitzgerald and his colleagues- and the rise of new artistic movements such as Dadaism and in architecture,the Bauhaus school. This was the start of the literary Modernism movement. People were definitely thinking outside the box.

However, after World War II, in a desperate attempt to regain "normality" there was a move to going back to the way things were. Suddenly, the Beaver Cleaver existence is born. There is a huge push for people to have families and for women to stay at home and take care of their home and children with the latest cleaning conveniences all with a smile on their faces and dinner on the table when hubby got home. Obviously, things didn't work out too well with this kind of restricted thinking. "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" was written, the Beat poets began to be heard, folk music spread and the 60s made for an entire new way of thinking again.

Though I've probably gotten far away from my point during my ramblings, the point is this: stuff comes from stuff. I found Sassoon's statement to be strikingly relevant to the events now occurring. I understand that to all wars there will always be dissenters, no matter what the cause, as I am a dissenter of the war we are now in.

I completely agree with World War II. It was a just cause to fight for and good things came out of it (as good things come out of everything). Plus, there's another upside. If events had been different, my grandparents would never have moved to America from Germany, my parents would have never met and had the wonderful person who is myself. So there is another super thing that came indirectly from World War II-- ME.