I Met a Man

Taro; Spanish Civil War



I met a man today who fought with the Americans in Italy in WW2.

He'd traveled with his dad to Europe several years before the war. When in Germany, he'd asked his dad, "Why are there so many soldiers? Why are there so many airplanes? What's going on here?"

His dad told him that there would soon be a terrible war.

When this boy was 16, he enlisted and wound up in Italy with the American Army. He said that he decided to kill as many Germans as he could. This is what he told everybody.

He said when he caught his first German POW, both he and the German boy burst into tears.

Now, when his grandkids ask him how many Germans he killed in the war, he says, "None, I hope."


When I hear the Kagans and other big talking neocons talk Big Talk about torture and nuking the Arabs
I think;

"Sissies. If they had to meet someone face to face, they'd piss themselves."

They don't know what they're talking about. They don't understand what it is to be a human being. We're being "led" by people who are pre-human. Not yet human beings.

Little men start wars. Big men finish them. Really big human beings help people heal from war. The real hero is there to pick up the pieces after everyone else has left the field.

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