The Past Echoes In The Future

I have begun to read the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. In it the horridness of war are not only expressed but neglected. Mary O'Hare to whom the book is dedicated to, is introduced as a character by stating the following quote: "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more if them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs".

Two things impacted me from the quote above. Yes do not fool yourself everybody enjoys a good looking guy in a movie full of action and conflict, yet as Mrs. O'Hare states it glorifies war. Movies are the best way to create propaganda for war, then let kids watch them and you have just created marvelous soldiers full of adrenaline to someday be like those made up generals like Sinatra, brilliant Hollywood.

Then we have babies fighting wars. Kids with their life half lived ended in a war that is not even theirs, millions of innocent people dying in terrorist attacks. Today is a day in which we can reflect the atrocities a war can create; ten years ago the world’s strongest nation suffered a terrorist attack that can never be forgotten. Reading this book noticing the suffering of a mother knowing that only time is keeping her family a whole, I was able to relate to the feeling the entire world is going through today. War is unpredictable and when it strikes, what comes is only worst.

Like the war Americans fought for September 11.

Remember 9-11.