War is a necessary evil that comes with our existence. But at what cost? The one that that takes the biggest toll is innocence. Most of the young men and women that join the military have no other choice, whether it is being poor, seeking an education or just wanting to get out of a bad neighborhood. These people join with an optimism that the military is going to change their lives for the better, to earn money and benefits for their family.
To a large extent these things do happen and does make a positive outcome for their lives. We tend to look at our military not as individual men and women but as a mass. That young woman who wanted earn money for college was just put into a situation where she had to kill somebody, or one of her friends was gunned down right next to her. Forever she will have that stain upon her soul. Forever will she see snipers in every building. Forever she will see blood upon her hands.
And what of that young man who joined just so he can get away from an abusive home? He thought he was leaving a bad environment just to be shipped off to a literal Hell on Earth. With the mental scars he receives from overseas he may come home and abuse his own family, mistakenly attacking an enemy in the shadows when it is just his wife coming out of the bathroom.
I whole heartedly support not our military but our troops. A lot of these brave people are forgotten as soon as the leave the military. They fought blindly for us, doing as they were told, killed when they didn't want to, saw suffering at every corner.
We need to applaud them and not bash our military just because we don't believe in the war. War was around before we were here and its going to be a part of human existence long after we've turned to ashes.
We can not lose the cost of innocence but we CAN help our own and lighten their burden.
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