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It is just as sentimental to pretend that war does not have its monstrous ugliness as it is to deny that it has its own strange and fatal beauty, a power, which can call out in men resources of endurance, courage, and self-sacrifice that peacetime, to our sorrow and loss, can rarely command.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive - it's a vanity.