Monday, August 29, 2011

VOCABULARY LESSON (Monday Poem)

by Ann Wagner


We don't have wars.

We have

conflicts
campaigns
operations
escalations
missions
offensives
preemptive strikes.

We don't have soldiers.

We have

peace keepers
troops
servicemen
servicewomen
forces
coalitions
units.

We don't have mistakes in combat.

We have

incidents
accidents
friendly fire
flawed intelligence

And we don't have death.

We have

casualties
loss of life
collateral damage.

What we do have is

a careful vocabulary.



from America At War selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, 2008, Simon & Schuster

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