“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
That is our update of Oliver Wendell Holmes' Memorial Day Speech of 1884:
"...the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire."
We still love it.
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Of course we do. Even more, even worse: we worship it. We bathe in its blood and destruction. It's inseparable from the god of Mammon, at whose altar we lay our lives and the lives of our children.
It is quite a rush.
It's better than anything else.
O, sweet world where warfare reigns/
and enforces us to bliss unrestrain'd !
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