Who There is Killing and Starting a War?

"Who There is Killing and Starting a War?"
By: Jacqueline Guerrero

 At first I thought it was disrespectful for somebody to create such a page, but when you think about it... most soldiers are victims. 

 Victims of the system. 

 They're people who went into war, not to kill people, but to save them; yet they were used as a means to an end by higher-ups. They're people who were drafted, forced; people trying to find a way to go to college, to make a future for themselves at the price of their freedom to live a life without killing, without witnessing death... and people drafted to provide for their families... 

  So I came to the conclusion that I don't actually agree, because I believe soldiers are not heroes; our soldiers are victims. 

 After being forced to kill people to push an agenda promoting freedom, at the sake of their own, if you look into the heart of any man who was in war and had to kill another, who still has empathy, you will not see pride, but you will see sorrow or remorse. As much as the military will try to dehumanize the people who they deem to be on the opposing side, turning many of our soldiers into killing machines on command(for the sake of our country), looking into a face of the enemy's child and at the child's scared mother will remind them of their own humanity... 

 What pride is there to take in killing others? In my mind, the only thing that makes soldiers heroes is if, instead of killing that innocent child and mother, they saved them. I don't think the soldiers would disagree. At the same time, I don't blame them, because it's the product of the system. 

 I empathize towards all victims, mother, children, soldier, civilian, family of those suffering loss, but I hope people realize that the reason that loss occurred and continues to occur was not for the sake of freedom; it occurred because of their loss of it.

 Fighting for what they believe in; if that alone qualified somebody for being a hero, then every person who believed they were justified in a war would be one. But that can never be the case...

That's the consequence of fighting wars over a difference belief.