War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. This a song lyric from a song called War written by Edwin Starr. In this song he talks about the horrors of war and the meaninglessness of everyone's deaths. He elaborates on lives lost and the ruined lives of generations to come because of the meaningless violence. Edwin Starr experienced war first hand. He was sent to have two years in service during World War II. He felt the effects of as he watched his his friends get killed one by one similar to the way Paul Balmer watched his friends died in the the novel All Quiet on The Western Front. Edwin Starr says in his song “Oh, war, has shattered many a young man's dreams made him disabled, bitter and mean life is much too short and precious to spend fighting wars these days war can't give life it can only take it away”. This shows war causes more than pointless death it also causes so many disabilities and emotional trauma. There is an estimated 313,890,422 veterans who know have some form of disability according to The United States Census Bureau. All of these Veterans has disabilities ranging from emotion to physical. The …show more content…
Even without war the loss of human lives is catastrophic. On average 1.8 people die every second. So many lives are lost from illness and accidents for example the highest mortality rate among people is caused Cardiovascular diseases. So if we as people have so many reasons as to why we are dying why would we send people to war send them to die for this warped belief of nationalism. They belived that they needed to fight to solve the worlds problems yet do we ever stop to think is there another way. War an easily be prevented. In the past we have seen many wars caused by fighting over our thoughts and ideals but couldnt we find a way peaceful co