No we wont go!

 Many people oppose to war, students, families and hippies, but what a lot people don’t know is that the soldiers themselves are also fighting for peace.   We when think of soldiers the all American killing war machine is pictured, who support the war whole heartily, but not many can fathom the idea of one protesting a war.    But soldiers change overseas and are exposed to violence in its rawest form, which they do not wish to bring back with them or bestow onto anyone else.   Such as in the blog Reflections on the Vietnam War: The Things a Warrior Knows, Ron Kovic,   a veteran turned antiwar activist who was shot and wheel chair bound while serving in the Vietnam war is quoted saying “The nightmares and anxiety attacks for the most part have disappeared, but I still do not sleep well at night. .... But I remain positive and optimistic. I am still determined to rise above all of this. I know, like so many of my fellow veterans, that my pain and the horrors of my past will always be with me, but perhaps not with the same force and fury of those early years after the war. I have learned to forgive my enemies and myself.”  After going through the ordeal of war, his main goal today is to spread peace to prevent someone else from going through the same thing.  What does it say about a soldier protesting war?  To some it is a cope out or a way to put a name to blame.  To me the men are tired of the smoke covering the real gore and violence that is war.  There has been thousands of books written of the concepts of war pertaining to the realism of war such as The things they carried by Tim O'Brain that brings you into the depths of war and can give details on why a soldier would want to protest.   I believe by doing so the men show a better sense of strength  because they are essentially fighting the American for a vote not to go.