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I agree Harry. I am Catholic, and from my Priest I had learned that there is always an alternative path to resolving your issues.
Watching movies like We Were Soldiers and Gangs of New York showed me two things. The first thing is, issues that we, in this time, feel are important, in due time will be long forgotten, and the key figures that played parts in those issues and conflicts will also be forgotten. America has seemed to misplace what they used to think was the only reason to fight. Happiness. America believed that fighting was necessary during times when another country's actions are preventing you from being free and happy.
My grandfather fought in Vietnam, and no matter how many times he used to tell me stories when I was young, the one thing I always remember him saying to me was... "You have no idea how painful it is to look into the eyes of another man, when you take his life... At that moment, you realize that he has family and friends just like you do. You realize that the tears that his family and friends will shed from his death, would have also been shed for you." He personally heard the stories from prisoner's of war of the otherside, saying that America didn't give them the chance they needed to take control of their own country. He told me that his wish from life was that he would die, forgetting the painful memories of the war. How they ran their government was not our business, and all we did was create more widows and ghosts.
War is painful for everyone, and there is never a need for it. Cry all you want about terrorism and unresolved issues, but the bottom line is that it's just one power hungry politician trying to flex his arm over another.
In war, pain and death, our skin color and nationality don't change the stain of blood or the shed of tears.
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