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Monday, February 18, 2008

So beacuse I love History(it's my favourite subject even though most people hate it) I went to read this book on World War I and World War II and the effect it had on me was... shocking. I had no idea how people actually survived, if they weren't killed on the front, then they were in danger of getting killed by air raids, and if THAT didn't kill them, then the sheer stress and fear of being IN a war would just do the job.

Seriously, I admire them SO MUCH.

I mean, most people know about the war. Yeah millions were killed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, the whole world(even isolationist USA) went into war, blabla. But they don't know the details. The horrific killings of suspected spies(many of which were probably innocent), the mustard gas(which was so horrible they didn't have the heart to use it in WW2), the way people were gassed to death in Auschwitz through no fault they committed and the separation of thousands of families.

I can tell you after I knew about it, I was SHAKEN. THe governments can just keep on declaring war on other nations but in truth, they probably didn't have to lift a finger. They were probably worried about how many more men they had left to send out to the front instead of the many families who lost their sons in the war. And even after this, I can't believe people still WANT to go to war for stupid things like oil or land or resources.

Can the many lives lost account for material possessions? No, they can't.

And besides, can I ask, who really BENEFITS during war? That's right, no one. And even AFTER you've got to pay for the soldier's counselling and ammunition.

The poor soldiers are probably scarred for life.

ON Saturday night, I was channel surfing(after midnight) and I happened to switch to channel 5 and it was some movie. Once I saw many people being forced into trains without ventilation, and a guy with the Jewish 'star' on his arm, I knew it was the Holocaust. I almost CRIED.

I have to stop being so sensitive.

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