On this Veterans Day, instituted after the WW I armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we should remember those who have given the ultimate sacrifice. Today's high-tech weaponry may lull people into thinking antiseptic warfare is here to stay, but war is a nasty business and should be a last resort when politics and diplomacy fail. The evil in this world must be confronted continually and war remains the ultimate stage for confronting it.
While anti-war protestors and anti-globalization foes rally in Florence, Italy, I fail to understand the alternative they may offer. Perhaps it's the media coverage or the violence and destruction of property exhibited by these groups during other rallies in Genoa and Seattle that persuades me they have no better answer to the problem of evil.
May God rest the souls of the American warriors who have paid the ultimate price in man's inhumanity toward man.
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