War - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

Now a days it seems to be common on TV to see a warning at the beginning of a show that says “Viewer discretion is advised”. Today I feel I should say “Reader discretion is advised”. If you look at life through rose colored glasses and everything is great, stop now, and run, far, far, away.

War is an ugly hellish thing. If you don’t agree, ring the bell for the nurse, it’s time for your medication. The ugliness of what one human can do to another is put in perfect clarity during the time of war. The worst part is I’m not talking about what happens just on the battle field, but at home.

The bad part about war is it seems to be inevitable. No matter how many wars to end all wars we have, it doesn’t end. People do not want to learn from others mistakes, or too easily forget. I will give credit to the people who protest a war before it starts, but after it’s already started, it just divides and weakens a country at a time when it needs as much strength as it can get. Strength, only can come from families across the country uniting together.

Experienced pilots know the best way to stay out of trouble with weather is to avoid it. Sometimes it means delaying a flight until the weather passes, or changing course to fly around the weather. But sometimes it just can’t be avoided; this is where it gets tough. Common sense tell us, even screams at us to get out, turn around, this is bad, but the experienced pilot knows the quickest and safest way out is to continue straight ahead. Most of the accidents are caused by trying to turn around. You can get disoriented and end up staying in the bad weather. The battle with the weather will wear you out, and bring the plane down. Now imagine everyone in the plane scared and screaming at the pilot to turn around. Let’s add another element. The pilot is getting information from the tower, which sees everything on their radar and advises the pilot which way is best to go to get through the storm. The people on the plane don’t know this for all their screaming, and the pilot is too busy fighting the plane to explain everything to them. The thing to remember is that the weather and war are both completely and truly unpredictable at times.

The good thing is the more experience you get the better you are, whether it’s predicting the weather, war, or riding a bicycle. I take great pride in being an American for we have the best trained and most experienced people in the world regardless if you are talking about our military or any other profession. Other countries may not care for us, but they know to come to us for the best training or when they need to get something difficult accomplished, we’re the can do country. We simply have good people in this great country who always keep trying to do better and learn more. That’s what keeps us out front.

As Americans even in this storm of war we enjoy a good life. Mothers can stand on a neighborhood side walk and talk with their kids playing around them with little to worry about. What the screaming people on the plane don’t realize is even if their right, the only thing that their accomplishing is making the others more scared. The pilot is going to do his job, right or wrong the best he can. Things wont change until a more experienced pilot can take over.
The question now is are you going to be one of the people who helps calm people down reminding them this war will be over soon, or one of those who just can’t help but to scream and make everyone else worry more. If history is any indication, all wars come to an end, good, bad, and ugly. Even if you’re the philosophical type, the war between good and evil will continue on, but the battlefield does change and move on.