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I find it hard to really comprehend the magnitude of so many people dying. Looking at the faces of hundreds of dead soldiers is overwhelming.
Then I realize that the civilian deaths outnumber them by an order of magnitude. Thousands of dead people is too many for me to adequately internalize. Perhaps it is for the sake of my sanity that I can not.
And then I think of the wars and tragedies in human history when casualties were in the millions, and not only can I not begin to comprehend death on that scale, but I am truly terrified by our destructive power.
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