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And that's what real war is like.  Once, I was stupid enough to ask my grandfather, who survived Guadalcanal and Okinawa, what the worst thing to happen to America was, and I thought he'd say the 60's or something, and he said WWII.  When I said, "Why?  We won," he looked at me as if I said something stupid, and he replied, "Son, you win a war like you win an earthquake."  When you're in it, you've got ONE thing on your mind - survival.  Sure, you want to succeed at missions, because, like the captain of the sub in Das Boot, you want that success to contribute to victory in the hope that the war will end!  Nobody wants to die, and for those who end up dying on the battlefield we hope that their deaths were not in vain.  But, sometimes, in real war, they are, because sometimes it doesn't matter if you succeed at your mission or not, as in the case of Das Boot at the end.  We can admire an enemy's valour and still be patriots.

And that's what real war is like.  Once, I was stupid enough to ask my grandfather, who survived Guadalcanal and Okinawa, what the worst thing to happen to America was, and I thought he'd say the 60's or something, and he said WWII.  When I said, "Why?  We won," he looked at me as if I said something stupid, and he replied, "Son, you win a war like you win an earthquake."  When you're in it, you've got ONE thing on your mind - survival.  Sure, you want to succeed at missions, because, like the captain of the sub in Das Boot, you want that success to contribute to victory in the hope that the war will end!  Nobody wants to die, and for those who end up dying on the battlefield we hope that their deaths were not in vain.  But, sometimes, in real war, they are, because sometimes it doesn't matter if you succeed at your mission or not, as in the case of Das Boot at the end.  We can admire an enemy's valour and still be patriots.