Is it right that...
... "young men fight wars while old men talk about
it"...
- Troy (the movie)
even when the young men did not create the war. Most soldiers have no say in when duty calls, but the people who make that decision need to thoroughly consider their actions lest the repercussions ripple across time in ways that will only be explained by history. The latest installment of MTV's Real World (Brooklyn) did a great job of portraying an issue that is becoming, no, is already all too common in this country. Kids younger than me that are veterans of war, and i'm not old at all. If you watched the show, then you know that one of the roommates, Ryan, had been in the Army, got out, then got called back while on the show. Yeah, he's from PA. Yeah, he was planning on going to my school post-show. So i can't blame myself for relating. God forbid misfortune, but when a soldier dies "they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten...never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun" (Eccl. 9:5b, 6b) and any contribution they would/could have made to society goes with them. I understand the concept of duty, and this is not about that. It's just the fact that the world refuses to get along that bothers me. It's not that hard to get along when you place yourself in another's shoes, as in our common humanity. But we are all way too absorbed in ourselves that we fail to see the beauty outside ourselves. So we destroy it. With sarcasm, ignorance, and bombs. We fail to realize that when there's nothing, and noone, left besides ourselves we'll be left standing all alone.
- Troy (the movie)
even when the young men did not create the war. Most soldiers have no say in when duty calls, but the people who make that decision need to thoroughly consider their actions lest the repercussions ripple across time in ways that will only be explained by history. The latest installment of MTV's Real World (Brooklyn) did a great job of portraying an issue that is becoming, no, is already all too common in this country. Kids younger than me that are veterans of war, and i'm not old at all. If you watched the show, then you know that one of the roommates, Ryan, had been in the Army, got out, then got called back while on the show. Yeah, he's from PA. Yeah, he was planning on going to my school post-show. So i can't blame myself for relating. God forbid misfortune, but when a soldier dies "they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten...never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun" (Eccl. 9:5b, 6b) and any contribution they would/could have made to society goes with them. I understand the concept of duty, and this is not about that. It's just the fact that the world refuses to get along that bothers me. It's not that hard to get along when you place yourself in another's shoes, as in our common humanity. But we are all way too absorbed in ourselves that we fail to see the beauty outside ourselves. So we destroy it. With sarcasm, ignorance, and bombs. We fail to realize that when there's nothing, and noone, left besides ourselves we'll be left standing all alone.
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