An Enviable Statistic

The average age of members of Japan's version of a veterans of foreign wars society is 92. They have decided to disband because, as one 92 year old put it, "There is no one to continue after us, thank goodness."

War is cruel. It kills, maims, and destroys. It swallows national treasuries whole. And worst of all, it leaves the human heart wallowing in the kind of filth that even animals do not know.

May every nation that has ever engaged in war do what Japan has done: make veterans associations obsolete because no new veterans are being made.