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Joseph Stalin once said, “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” Most people in the world fail to realize the real tragedy of war. The millions of deaths which occur during a war are undoubtedly tragic, but no one comprehends the trauma on the battlefield as well as the soldiers themselves do. One of the greatest war novels of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front, focuses on the …

…war; the only feeling they have towards it is a feeling of antipathy. The politicians and leaders of the countries in the war were spared the gruesome sights of the dead bodies and wounded men, though they knew it existed. During the recent Gulf War, the United States military censored graphic footage. When asked why, a Pentagon official responded, “If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.”