“Piles of bloody clothing had been cut off and dumped out of the way in corners; coffee cups and cigarette stubs littered the decks, plasma bottles hung from cords, and all the fearful surgical apparatus for holding broken bones made shadows on the walls.”
This account drives home the horror and scale of that day that other accounts dont really match. It is always the reporting on the wounded, the innocents and the personal suffering that hits the hardest. This focus on the consequences of all the sacrifice on that day does more to honor the people who did the sacrificing than any story of the glory or tactics or generals ever could. Gellhorn says:
"There has to be a better way to run the world, and we had better see that we get it."
It is never more important than now to remember that. War is horrible. It is our collective responsibility to promote reason, compassion and peace in the hope of preventing as much war as we can. This was a good article.
> It is never more important than now to remember that. War is horrible. It is our collective responsibility to promote reason, compassion and peace in the hope of preventing as much war as we can.
Agreed, though...
"When the last person who remembers the last great war is dead, the next great war becomes inevitable."
Indeed. This means upholding international law wherever possible as thats the biggest single mechanism thats kept us in something approaching peacetime for all these years. This means holding our allies to a higher standard than those who oppose us. This means being willing to oppose tyrants and hostile actors.
We cant get complacent about these things because thats how we do get WW3. Lets all work to prevent that. Lets give Ukraine what they need to fight. Lets be more strict and hold Israel to a higher standard. Lets strengthen our presence in the south china sea and lets do it visibly and believably.
This account drives home the horror and scale of that day that other accounts dont really match. It is always the reporting on the wounded, the innocents and the personal suffering that hits the hardest. This focus on the consequences of all the sacrifice on that day does more to honor the people who did the sacrificing than any story of the glory or tactics or generals ever could. Gellhorn says:
"There has to be a better way to run the world, and we had better see that we get it."
It is never more important than now to remember that. War is horrible. It is our collective responsibility to promote reason, compassion and peace in the hope of preventing as much war as we can. This was a good article.