Today's pic of the day on Wikipedia

[BullcreekBob]

The look from the folks walking by is what most disturbs me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V-2victimAntwerp1944.jpg

[JeffGlue]

unbelievable.

[PiroStitch]

welcome to the idiocy and unfortunate side to war

[sirhc55]

In five years of war (1939-1945) approx 50,000,000 people died.

Vietnam took the lives of over 50,000 US soldiers.

That’s war for you

BUT - in 1998 there were 1,170,694 fatalities worldwide caused by vehicles to which you can add 38,848,625 injured people.

Get your cars off the roads and let’s go back to horses

[TonyT]

I had a uncle who was a fireman as was my father in london during the war and was kill by a V1 Had a wife and 1 month old child

[bwhinnen]

Having read accounts from people involved in World War II they became very desensitized to seeing dead bodies and parts of them around the place very very quickly. From all accounts it was the only way to keep some semblance of sanity. I've even seen commentary of people who would make light of the way dead bodies were arranged when they fell etc to help keep them sane and ignore the atrocities they were inflicting on each other.

Sad but true, C'est La Guerre (the phrase that gained popularity in World War II for anything that went wrong, was unexplained etc).

[Killakoala]

I had many of my relatives killed during WWII, in England and elsewhere.

War sucks.

Some people die. Most live and carry on and try to avoid war again. Some of us still put our lives on the line so that the majority can live in peace.

I'm proud to be a Vet, not because I was involved in a war (or three) but because I helped people who couldn't help themselves escape the tyranny of a few radical idiots. Had I been killed helping them I am sure I would have a different opinion of that. I know my mother would.

But yep, war sucks.

We each deal with severe trauma differently, but in the end, we never forget it for the rest of our lives. Although the guys walking past look indifferently at the poor dead guy, I have no doubt that they will have remembered what happened that day for a very long time afterwards.