Most recent public comments by Innocent Wambugu Kironji https://nowcomment.com/users/16338 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=384992 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=384992 Nguyen writes hear that many people all over the world enjoy war stories and especially the more gruesome and disturbing ones. This clearly shows that it's become a common part of our society today to trade war stories amongst one another as though they were fairy tales rather than the truly horrific events they are. Wars bring death, sadness and atrocity yet we welcome it's stories. I find this to be very disturbing but very true for a majority of people worldwide--especially those in America. We make War into novels and movies and use colorful pictures in our history books and always making excuses and saying that these wars are all started for good and that we are fighting for pure righteousness. War is nothing like that. War only takes, it never gives and it's quite a sad thought to see people smiling and laughing at tales of war. We have become so desensitized that we no longer realize the true weight of war. Most people only know war as higher taxes and higher gas prices but not as mass murder, genocide, rape, the things that are truly war. It does not help when a lot of soldiers who come back from wars often understate it's true horrors: about how two of their friends were killed, one lost his legs and another is so mentally traumatized he can barely leave his house. These are what war truly is and I do not think people in today's society understand it's true weight. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:10:44 -0500