and the greatest lesson I’ve learned about any and all wars and the veterans that were left behind and survived is to always ask ‘why wars were started in the first place’

The biggest humanitarian crime I’ve come to learn is the lessons of the First World War and why that fiasco was even started. The more history you read into that conflict, the more confused and complicated and senseless it becomes.

And those question lead into WWII and the reasons why the second conflict started and how it could have been prevented. Because even as the world watched the fallout and the rise of fascism, no one really did anything to stop it and in many cases, helped to enable it to become the thing that everyone fought against.

The more history you read about every conflict, the more you realize that every conflict is preventable, which leads you to realize that every conflict is senseless.

Which is why I always believe that we have to remember … remember the fallen … but also remember the reason why they fought in the first place … and to remember the reasons and causes so that we never allow this to happen again.