The primary lesson in war is that we as distinct individuals do not matter. We become numbers. Fodder. Objects. Life, once precious and sacred, becomes meaningless, sacrificed to the insatiable appetite of Mars. No one in wartime is exempt. “We were expendable,” Eugene Sledge wrote of his experiences as a Marine in the South Pacific in World War II. “It was diG-cult to accept. We come from a nation and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.”2 - The greatest evil is war by Chris Hedges