Today I was looking at videos of stories by Story Corp over on vimeo and came across this video of a soldier, presumably from WWII, recounting the day that he looked a young enemy soldier in the eyes and shot him dead.
The story made me profoundly sad for his loss as well as the kid who never got to experience so many things. My mind couldn't help but leap from Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya, Syria and other conflicts around the world both past and present. Each statistic that we stoically hear is a profound loss and deserves to be mourned by us all.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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You are absolutely correct when you wrote that we should all mourn our collective loss whenever a life is lost. Strange how our "civilization" has stagnated and not evolved over the past thousands of years.
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