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THE HORROR OF IT -- CAMERA RECORDS OF WAR'S GRUESOME GLORIES |
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*** "If a war started tomorrow, would we of 1914 be as enthusiastic in going again? I know we wouldn't be, we couldn't be. It isn't the danger, it isn't that war is lacking in adventure, but because we now know that it isn't glorious. We were told in school it was. "We know now that for every Victoria Cross won, there must be 10,000 wooden crosses won -- we were not told so much about the wooden cross at school. We know that men excel themselves in war -- but now we also know that to excel is to kill. In 1914, we saw and knew statues of heroes of our glorious tradition, but now as fathers of our boys, we, super-patriots of 1914, pray our governments of England, France, Germany, Russia, American and humanity, that our sons be told and taught the truth of war. A little more of the wooden cross and a little less of the glory cross. Teach them young, so that as statesmen they may know that war is too filthy a way for civilized men to settle their differences." From "The Inexcusable Lie," by Harold R. Peat ***
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