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wordCount(’Section 56′)Section 56 paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’Date11/18/07, 11/19/07′)Date11/18/07, 11/19/07 paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

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wordCount(’ War, essay number 5′)War, essay number 5 paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’Argument/persuasion’)Argument/persuasion paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’War is for me, the purest difference, between killing, and murder. I see a direct need for killing in war, and I tolerate no excuse for murder, in war or anywhere else. ‘)War is for me, the purest difference, between killing, and murder. I see a direct need for killing in war, and I tolerate no excuse for murder, in war or anywhere else. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’First some clarity with respect to the words and there definitions. Killing, I would define as the slaying, or act of causing a death. I’m in my fox hole, the enemy approaches; I aim, fire, and kill the opposition troop. In field manual 101, United States Army, I remember a distinct line, and I quote “We will teach you, to do things, foreign to your nature”) close quote. Since time began and my earliest Christian teachings, I found that statement interesting that killing humans would be foreign to anyone’s nature. War or no war, we have let the blood fill the soil of this earth. Only in war however, is the blood shed, now noble red. ‘)First some clarity with respect to the words and there definitions. Killing, I would define as the slaying, or act of causing a death. I’m in my fox hole, the enemy approaches; I aim, fire, and kill the opposition troop. In field manual 101, United States Army, I remember a distinct line, and I quote :( “We will teach you, to do things, foreign to your nature”) close quote. Since time began and my earliest Christian teachings, I found that statement interesting that killing humans would be foreign to anyone’s nature. War or no war, we have let the blood fill the soil of this earth. Only in war however, is the blood shed, now noble red. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’ We next turn to the pitched fork shoulder as I see it in reference to a death timely or otherwise. Murder, as I understand it, is the killing of, in this case (war) not in self defense and outside the circumstances recognized by moral or ethical laws that we as civilized humans understand. From my foxhole I have a second enemy combatant engage me, and I fire wounding my foe. This subdued opponent now surrenders, and instead of my acceptance of his/her surrender, I fire one lone round into and cease the existence of the afore mentioned opposition troop.’)We next turn to the pitched fork shoulder as I see it in reference to a death timely or otherwise. Murder, as I understand it, is the killing of, in this case (war) not in self defense and outside the circumstances recognized by moral or ethical laws that we as civilized humans understand. From my foxhole I have a second enemy combatant engage me, and I fire wounding my foe. This subdued opponent now surrenders, and instead of my acceptance of his/her surrender, I fire one lone round into and cease the existence of the afore mentioned opposition troop. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’Killing my enemy I can live with. I have been trained, tested and proved worthy in 22 years of military service to exercise this right under command authority. This act of killing has been sanctioned and found ethical within certain limits of a battle field engagement. The battle field is changing, but the killing remains the ancient repetitive act of ceasing a life. ‘)Killing my enemy I can live with. I have been trained, tested and proved worthy in 22 years of military service to exercise this right under command authority. This act of killing has been sanctioned and found ethical within certain limits of a battle field engagement. The battle field is changing, but the killing remains the ancient repetitive act of ceasing a life. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’Murder is killing gone awry. Lust, greed, or just the lack of the law provided in war set forth in text no less, as stated in the Geneva Convention, undermines the death and so doing, one more human dies. Not that I’m being naïve, but the life taken was a murderous act, and not a death from the casualties in war. ‘)Murder is killing gone awry. Lust, greed, or just the lack of the law provided in war set forth in text no less, as stated in the Geneva Convention, undermines the death and so doing, one more human dies. Not that I’m being naïve, but the life taken was a murderous act, and not a death from the casualties in war. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’World War II illustrates for the world the need to stop and vanquish the evil foe. Many lives were taken in the killing and murder associated with that global conflict. Once the war ended, and to this day, we still have the war tribunals ever hunting the murderers of the war, and not the heroic soldiers of each side who killed in the “war” as we know it. ‘)World War II illustrates for the world the need to stop and vanquish the evil foe. Many lives were taken in the killing and murder associated with that global conflict. Once the war ended, and to this day, we still have the war tribunals ever hunting the murderers of the war, and not the heroic soldiers of each side who killed in the “war” as we know it. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’Vietnam’s war, or conflict, as history records it, shouted to the world about the massacre of the innocents, and one captain was tried for his murders committed. The globe we walk on as man, so often in confusion, spoke of the violation in murder, bound up in the business of killing, in a war. ‘)Vietnam’s war, or conflict, as history records it, shouted to the world about the massacre of the innocents, and one captain was tried for his murders committed. The globe we walk on as man, so often in confusion, spoke of the violation in murder, bound up in the business of killing, in a war. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’No one I know understands the cowardice of the terrorist. Random murder, but reported in the news media as terrorist killings. The battle field can be a church or subway. The death, just as horrific, but for the terrorist, he does not attack the enemy with clearly defined rules of engagement that any country, military or lets face it, one single soldier can mentally come to terms with. ‘)No one I know understands the cowardice of the terrorist. Random murder, but reported in the news media as terrorist killings. The battle field can be a church or subway. The death, just as horrific, but for the terrorist, he does not attack the enemy with clearly defined rules of engagement that any country, military or lets face it, one single soldier can mentally come to terms with. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’I served in the armed forces under the stripes and wings of the United States Air Force and in fiat with the United States Army. Make no mistake, I was trained to kill.’)I served in the armed forces under the stripes and wings of the United States Air Force and in fiat with the United States Army. Make no mistake, I was trained to kill. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’When my career in the United States military was coming to a close I changed career fields. I left federal service as a combat medic. Killing, even though justifiably war legal, had its limits for me as well. ‘)When my career in the United States military was coming to a close I changed career fields. I left federal service as a combat medic. Killing, even though justifiably war legal, had its limits for me as well. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)

wordCount(’Quietly, in thought, reflect on this phrase. Murder or be murdered. Or was it correctly written, kill or be killed. ‘)Quietly, in thought, reflect on this phrase. Murder or be murdered. Or was it correctly written, kill or be killed. paraCount(’paragraph.gif’)