You are an awesome dad 
Explained to my sons that war is actually horrible, but boys think it's exciting because they imagine it's like their lion-cubs-wrestling version of fighting writ large, and no one wants to give them nightmares by telling them what it's really like.
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Tell them what it’s really like
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I would make this and the "destroyer of worlds" required listening for every American high school student.
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Trench poetry offers powerful images where many explanations fall shorthttps://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626720657 …
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Evolution is probably the explanation. It used to be this way: you have to be able to fight back, otherwise you will be wiped out. The Moriori are a sad example of this.
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When I was 9 yo I was in Grozny’96, in the middle of the most brutal war. People were dying, our homes being destroyed but I vividly remember that my friends and I were playing..in war
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Horrible and exciting are not mutually exclusive.
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This is a conundrum. Should we watch eg Restrepo with our kids when they’re 16 or so and have a discussion afterwards about the horrors of war? My 9 yo also thinks war’s cool and heroic.
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