> but the solemn joy thousands of Americans seem to be taking in
burying their 18-year-olds, their children home via body bag and they're
GLAD! It makes them happy, it makes them proud, something I find so
profoundly tragic and wasteful it brings tears to my eyes. It brings home
the point, I suppose, that most Americans really do believe this is a good,
just war, worth expending their kids for
* * *
, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
The Latin tag means: Sweet and proper it is to die for one's country.
It _is_ strange, and yet I think it is the deaths that in fact vindicate the war, that show them that that it was worth it, make it impossible to recoinsider, you can't go back now; that would dishonor the dead. They cannot have died for nothing or worse for something wicked.
jks
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