Death, as a whole, is generally seen as a bad thing. The fearful transition from life to death has given mankind an apprehensive feeling since the beginning of time. Therefore, people usually think of death as a depressing, traumatic, and sorrowful time of grievance. Of course, there are always exceptions. Dying in honor, for instance, suddenly transforms the dead into something more important. A martyr, willing to give his life for something greater than himself, is assured to be remembered as a hero. And in the early part of the twentieth century, to be a hero was every young mans dream. Conveniently, the old men of the same time period had waged war on each other, declaring that true heroism was achieved only by becoming a soldier
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