http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/21/magazine/20100321-soliders-bedrooms-slideshow.html?hp Years afer the war has started, the fight against terror has claimed thousands, most of which are the lower enlisted soldiers, the kids, of this generation's armed services.
Take a look at these pictures. Take a look at the rooms in houses that stand, cleaned, pressed, and sterile in homage to the boys and girls that used to live in them.
Notice the details: the posts, the stuffed animals, the trophies.
Pictures really are worth a thousand words.