We are at war.
When I hear this statement, I don’t really think outside the box. The first thing that comes to my mind is the war in the Middle East. I’m rather uneducated about the current state of our troops or how we fare in the war at all for that matter. I know one of the reasons that we fight is to help liberate the people in Afghanistan (at least I think). I am not completely clear on the details of the war and I am rather uninformed about the reasoning behind it. However, one thing that comes to mind is something I experienced while watching a Leafs game on TV. It was a list of the Canadian soldiers who had recently lost their lives in the war overseas. The photos that accompanied these names, for the most part, contained young, hopeful looking individuals. I also noticed the majority of the soldiers were under the age of 25. The whole segment really made me think, but it also seemed a little harsh as after it finished it was right back to the Hockey Night in Canada song and almost seemed to be disregarded. Young men and women join the army for their own personal reasons, but people continue to be exposed to government commercials and propaganda encouraging them to “fight for their country.” I don’t believe in war and I think the fact that young people continue to join the war is very noble and brave. At the same time I find it tragic that they have to join at all, and often lose their lives fighting a war, which at times seems completely illogical in itself.
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