Easy War

The government was made up of people who thought about fighting, not of those who did it. The men sitting behind desks, they spent other men to buy ground, and then they ruined the ground they had and more men to get the ground beyond. If they were on the right side, they did it the same as them that were on the wrong side. They talk about victory, as if they know all them dead boys was glad to die. The dead boys ain’t never been asked how glad they was. If they had it to do again, might be they wouldn’t do it, or might be they would but they ain’t been asked. – Wendell Berry