On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:01  PM, Wirt Atmar wrote:

> All war is political, and most often unnecessary. All war is terrible.
> If
> you're going to remember the veterans of war, you first must remember
> what war
> is. Don't glorify war or mythologize it. It's too important for trivial
> sentimentalities or self-righteous justifications. On this Veteran's
> Day, it's good to
> read Mark Twain again.
>
> Outraged by American military intervention in the Philippines, Twain
> wrote
> the following and sent it to Harper's Bazaar.  The women's magazine
> rejected it
> for being too radical, and it wasn't published until after Twain's
> death, when
> World War I made it even more timely. It appeared in Harper's Monthly,
> November 1916:
>
> =========================================
>
> The War Prayer, March 1905
> by Mark Twain

<snip>

Thanks, Wirt.

FW

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