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Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but we soldiers don't have that problem. "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." I hate war, but I support the cause for which I am fighting- freedom. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself!

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. They will realize that somewhere a little girl will grow up without a Daddy to walk her down the aisle, without a Daddy to hold her when some punk breaks her heart. Somewhere a little boy will fish alone for the rest of his days. He will throw his baseball in the back yard, and then have to walk across the lawn to retrieve it...for there is a void on the receiving end of that game of catch. He will be the student who doesn't want to attend school on "Meet My Daddy Day," because he has no one to introduce. Somewhere a wife will raise her children alone, without anyone to lean upon, learning to cook for 3 people, rather than 4, remembering that she has one less plate, fork, spoon, knife, and glass to wash after every meal, knowing that every load of laundry will have one less shirt and one less pair of trousers. She will bear the pain of the entire family. For she will have to view the boy without the playmate...the girl without the guardian...and herself without a lover, a protector, a shelter, a friend, a companion, a spouse. Jos Narosky once said, "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." Truer words have ne'er been spoken. For in war, we are all wounded.

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