General William T. Sherman once said, “War is hell.” That is the truth. War is “any place or state of supreme misery or discomfort,” as the word “hell” is defined. The word “misery” stands for the grief and worry friends and families of the soldiers at war go through, and the word “discomfort” stands for the uneasiness the soldiers feel being placed in an unfamiliar environment, kno

wing that they could perish at any given moment.

The word “war” has affected myself on a more personal level. A person who is an important part of my life is in the midst of the conflict in Iraq, and I’ll never forget the day he told me he would be leaving. My heart dropped like an apple from a tree and my eyes opened to face reality. The war became real. The emotions you hear that the “friends and families of soldiers” go through from the interviews on TV became real. The war began to mean more to me than just what I saw on TV, read in newspapers, and studied in social studies class. It penetrated my skin, and all of the sudden I cared about the war. I wanted to know about the latest headlines concerning the war. I wanted to make sense of the reasons for the war. I felt the grief and worry that other friends and families of soldiers did, and

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