A Choice For Peace

Today's topic kind of intermingles with yesterday's post, since this blog is participating in blogging for peace, and there are Tuesday topics.
I remember when the war in Iraq started, I was upset, I was definitely against the war, but I was also against the media presentation of the first bombings-because those were actual people dying with each of those bombs-they weren't statues or dummies or dolls, they were living, loving human beings with families, they were fathers and brothers and sisters and mothers. They weren't objects, for us to watch their massacre on tv as though it was nothing. I couldn't stand it. I am against murder, and war is murder, no ifs, ands, or buts. I was against the war because there had already been so many deaths, on 9/11, and in Afghanistan, I didn't want more suffering in the world. I knew war would happen, but four years of it?! Pain! Why so much pain in the world that could have been avoided? We can still avoid more pain. We always have the choice for peace.