Army: (n) an organized military force equipped for fighting on land.

I decided to conduct an experiment with six friends.

We dressed up in army uniforms, as much as we could muster with our limited funds and our understanding of the military.

We smeared some catsup on the fronts of our clothes and we laid down in a nearby field, as if dead. One by one, each of us rose to our feet, stood and gazed down on the six bodies lying before us.

It was an amazing sensation–to view noses, ears, mouths and the closed eyes of those who were pretending to be dead, sprawled out, making it evident that each one possessed a life that had been snuffed from existence.

The problem with history is that it is taught without being processed through the membrane of compassion and understanding.

So when the book tells us that “fifteen thousand soldiers were killed in a three-day period in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,” our minds process a vision of stacked cord-wood instead of human beings covered in blood, with contorted, disturbed countenances as evidence of their last memories.

The problem with an army is actually what makes it an army:

It is a loss of individuals in the pursuit of a gathered mass hysteria.

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