What an excellent post, short and to the point!

I think you answered your question from the beginning when you wrote:

"All those young puppets proudly marching forward, toward their likely deaths for someone to enforce ideals whose rotten financial background they cannot grasp."

It really underlines the perversion we live in a paradigm where greedy old men send young people to their demise, whether or not they die physically, they are asked to commit their souls... The horrors of wards go far beyond the dead, mutilated or handicapped bodies, the psychological effects are scares so deep they can hardly be healed. as my grand-father said to my dad, if your children are asked to go to war, take them to the woods and don't turn back! His thoughts after the war really changed him forever and he never wanted any of his children to experience such horrors.

Thanks a lot for the harsh reality check, necessary to be reminded to most, so we will find ways to live humanly.

Namaste :)