|
I was reading about Number 18.
That is the 18th boy coming home for the last time, to lay
under the green green grass of home. He came home to this
state of Nebraska.. I know of other states that have many
more sons returning, maybe some less. One is one too many.
I care not what state they are from.
Someone wrote into the newspaper, a
single line. ???What a shame and a waste, how many more????
Someone else wrote in saying, the person that wrote that
was a total nut. I have heard it said by so called good
Christians. For God and Country. Excuse me, what has God got
to do with it?
It seems to me that it is wrong to
drag God into the wars we make. I have maintained for years
that men (and hate) make wars. God talks of love, not wars
and hate. I also believe most people never understand
wars, but follow blindly into wars that the leaders dream
up.
People are like cattle, they follow. A
lie told long enough and often enough starts to sound like
the truth. The leaders sit back after getting the mass of
people worked up, then they and their crowd get to reap the
profits of war. All the while the mass of people does
without, and they see sons and daughters come home to lay
under the green green grass of home.
Let me take this a step further. As
long as we allow old men to make war, we will have boys and
girls coming home crippled, or in boxes. Many have never
seen war up close, or stayed home pulling strings to stay
home in safety. But often they can order others into the
fight.
If I have stepped on toes, so be it. I
have seen what war can do. I know who pays the price of war.
?© 2004 Bill Walker
wildbill6807 @ yahoo.com |
