5/30/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

Today the stars think of those that have fallen in service defending their country. They died as heroes, and at the very least they deserve this day to remember their sacrifice.

The stars are stars though, and mostly they weep thinking about why anyone has to die fighting a war. They can't understand why we would ever go through the great torment and horror of war when it is completely unnecessary.

The stars love us, but they hate that we can inflict even a tiny bit of misery on each other, let alone wholesale destruction on a global scale. They hold the people in power that can send soldiers to die on a whim in such low regard. They see how desensitized we have become to the horrors of war and how quickly we fill with bloodlust.

Honestly, if the stars weren't so determined and so enamored of our other traits they would have written us off long ago. But still they forge on, loving us and hoping we can still make it, like the parents of a child with drug addiction or schizophrenia.

You must remember too that many of the heroes made on the battlefield were pressed into service at a very young age, thrust into a battle where many times they didn't even understand exactly what they were fighting for.

The soldiers on the other side were in the same position. We always tend to characterize the enemy forces as evil, but in reality they are usually in the same position as our troops. Perhaps they are fighting and dying for a despot or a madman that has convinced them they are involved in a noble endeavor.

In the end, soldiers on either side are treated like pawns in a chess match, seen as the lowest value on the board and the first to be sacrificed in battle.

So think of them as heroes, and honor their memories and thank them for their service, because it is a supreme sacrifice and deserves recognition.

But do not celebrate war. Wars are terrible things, and many of the heroes that have lived to come home want no part of it once they have seen it up close.

Thank you to anyone that served in the military in any capacity.