By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Almost everyone in America has been somehow affected by the recent events at the Ft Hood Army Base. The events were seemed particularly intense because only days later Americans honored those who served in Veterans Day observances around the nation.

Just when we thought there couldn’t be another movie about WW II along came Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and the ten part miniseries about the 101^st Airborne’s Easy Company with the epic and stirring film Band of Brothers.

Most Americans are not naïve about the strains of war and they realize that sometimes soldiers will act out their worst under the pressures of warfare. Yet there is an unparalleled history of military dignity, observances of the rules of war and concerted effort to observe the provisions of the Geneva Convention in American fighting men and women. All of this fails sometimes not because they are soldiers or U.S. Soldiers but because they are human.

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