Death is not something to take lightly. It causes anguish to all parties who knew the deceased: family, friends, coworkers, etc. Grieving can take years before one can accept someone's death. It's certainly a roller coaster of emotions.
In chapter nine, Lily bought a book called
The Destruction of Dresden. In the book, Ira C. Eaker, Lt. General, U.S.A.F., wrote a foreword concluded with "I deeply regret that British and U.S. bombers killed 135,000 people in the attack on Dresden, but I remember who started the last war and I regret even more the loss of more than 5,000,000 Allied lives in the necessary effort to completely defeat and utterly destroy nazism."
This quote poses a question that many have asked during conflict: which lives are worth more, civilians or soldiers? In addition, can you ever justify taking hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in war? I don't believe it will ever be able to be justified.
Those are very thought-provoking questions. I agree with you that it will never be justified. All men are created equal.
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