16 January 2006
Hate War
I'm not going to post on my feelings about warfare. If you have access to this blog, you should already know those feelngs. I make this post, at 0117 hours on 16 January 2006 because I finished watching We Were Soldiers. It is not the first time I have seen the film; I also read the book long before I saw the film for the first time. If you have not seen it, I cannot express in words... you have to see it. I care not your age, nor whether or not you get queezy at the sight of blood or violence--this is war, this is reality. The world is not a nice place, although that is what we strive for every day.
But I did not post to tell you to see a movie. Rather, I post a question. A question that you may or may not choose to answer via comment to this post. But a question I ask you to think long and hard about.
How do you explain war to a young child?
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I think a better question is, " CAN you explain war to a child?" As a parent I've thought about that a great deal. My daughter still doesn't understand why anyone would want to kill anyone else, and I have yet to find a good way to explain it to her. I know a lot of people stand behind the, " Defending ourselves from evil...." and all that, but being a pacifist I find it hard to sell that. ( I do however know that, were my family in DIRECT mortal danger, I could kill easily to protect them, but that's something different, isn't it?) I just don't think there is an adequate way to explain to a child why people choose to intentionally hurt one another.
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