The fighters who do most of the dying in war don’t get special graves. Those most wounded don’t get special hospitals. They don’t get invited to the White House, or to any other Big House. They don’t get armor. They don’t get guns. They get to walk through the soldiers who have all that without anything except courage so huge, we can’t even see it.
Look at this graph from the BBC, and see if anything strikes you about it.
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quixote on July 6th, 2007 at 17:57