In War The Fathers Bury Their Sons.

(Today I was challenged to an imaginary war. I don't like war - imaginary or real).

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

- Barbara Kingsolver


Maybe we should visit the grave before starting a war.

- Ghostwise

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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

- Ghostwise

War & Peace

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."

- Benjamin Franklin


When will we ever learn?

- Ghostwise

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"We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."

- Lord Baden-Powell


If our patriotism is to justice and love and not to race, class, sect, town, city and country, then maybe we may have a glimpse of Peace on earth.

- Ghostwise

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