Hope in Times of War

In Times of War

These days everybody talks about the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, some of us believe that we should stay there, and others believe we should bring our soldiers back.

It was not long ago when I heard somebody was talking about the war in Iraq. He was a hard core republican and had no idea what is war look like. I waited about 5 minutes and then I had to jump into their conversation because I could not take it any more. I asked him do you have any idea what is war look like? He said “war is war and people get kill and that’s the nature of it.” I said actually “war is all about the man next to you. When the bullet comes toward you, you just think about saving your life and the man next to you. In that moment all politics and other stuff doesn’t mean anything anymore. I call that “experience” and sometimes a difficult