Message from Fireman

[Catwoman]

Fireman - I don't know you, but I would like to offer you my respect and admiration for being selfless and altruistic enough to risk your life for something you believe in. You will have pushed yourself to limits and taken risks that most of us could never imagine.

Understandably people are dubious about this war - the only reason you are attacked is because as a soldier you are - quite inadvertently - a symbol of the war, and it is this they despise, not the soldiers themselves.

I have a friend who considered enlisting. He didn't because after a week's induction he knew he didn't have what it takes. He didn't have what it takes to be able to kill; and to kill for reasons he didn't understand - that would never be explained, or to take such an order from a person who may not be fit to make that decision, because even they may not know what they're fighting for.

Personally, I am opposed to any war, not just this one. How can we subject our loyal and courageous citizens to such terror and pain? What does it actually achieve? There are no winners in a war, except maybe those who escape it. Welcome back.