War Diaries Day Twenty

In war they only remember the first five casualties
After that they only become a two second blurb on the evening news
No name, no history, just another young son or daughter dead
We struggle to remind ourselves why they are fighting
And after all that
We still cannot justify the end gains
How many does it take to reach an objective?
You can’t really know when the objective is unknown
Still they fight and die, fight and die
And for what?
An imaginary line that moves on a map to show what we have taken or lost
I wonder sometimes if politicians and generals can sleep at night
Knowing the decisions they have made
Have taken human lives and destroyed a thousand more.

Thank you to all who read and made comments on my War Diaries series. I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I did creating it.

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