Lance Gill

                                                     The War on Errorism

        Dying is something that no one looks forward to. Everyone is going to die one day, so you might as well die fighting for something you believe in. Being killed for your country is said to be one of the most honorable ways to die. However, what if your fighting for a cause you don’t believe in.

        In William Dean Howells story “ Editha ”, He writes about a man who goes to war to win the heart of a girl and in doing so loses his life. The girl, Editha, basically tells him that he must go and fight in the war or she will not stay with him. The man, who was completely against the war ends up going to fight and in the mist of battle gets killed. Howells thoughts on the subject of war are very clear, he against it. I think that he expresses is views the best though the words of the man's mother. She states that everyone is someone else’s son or father. Soldiers aren’t so much a hero in his eyes, as they are murders. Its not that she doesn’t support the troops, its that she thinks that what they are fighting for is a useless cause.

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        Editha goes though a sense of depression. I personally felt that she didn’t feel as bad as she should have. I do think that at the end of the story that she finally got that you don’t have to be a fighting solider to be a hero, you just have to stand up for what you believe in. If you’re fighting in a war then it should only be because you truly believe in it.

        Another famous author, Ambrose Bierce, had very similar views on the war. His story “ An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge “ follows a man ...

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