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Originally Posted by GenjiChan
War is sweet to those who have never experienced it - Pindar
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Yep, the rulers reap the rewards while they convince the peasants to die for a noble cause. Thus the romanticism. It reached its disgusting heights during World War I and then everyone got a wakeup call that no, there is no honor in war. There are only losers; just depends on who loses less.
For every hero there are at least 20 equally as heroic ones that got thrown in the meat grinder like trash. Occasionaly we have a necessary evil like World War II, but it's just that. It's not glorious. Honor those that fought, not the war itself.
But fiction is fiction, I guess.