Rosemary [US-CT]

my brother went to war when he was 17. like most veterans, he did not speak much about the vietnam war because war is a most terrible and unspeakable thing. i believe the civilian american people first learned about the true nature of war during the vietnam war because it was the first time that journalists were not censored by the military. we were shocked at atrocities but the truth is that atrocities occur in every war on both sides. i believe all human beings need to understand what war truly is so that we, at best, never engage in that condoned murder of each other again, and at least, send our young sons and brothers and fathers to that hell with the gravest of reservations. i think that the politicians who vote for war should send their children into the front lines first. i also think that calling war 'a conflict' fools no one and shames those precious lives lost and the survivors.