In God is our trust

For reasons whatever I failed to understand the Kashmir issue in India which is burning ever since that fateful day in year 1947 and the tensions running between both the countries for the last sixty + years. Ok. I can over look that as just a brotherly feud - if I forget all about the attacks and wars in Kashmir and other areas in India remotely related with Pakistan. 
And I have the same views regarding the attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. No war is justified; it's all just selfish. No matter who wins in the war, the loser is always the common man. Ask him in Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, US, UK, Bangladesh, Israel, Palestine and each one them will have the same question as answer. 'Is this war just? What did I gain?'


The old man stood near the two graves - alone with tears in his eyes and his two sons buried six feet under those graves. Dead fighting for something they couldn't identify; neither could their officers or theirs or theirs.
He spent a mournful hour at those graves as the entire town gathered in the town park. He came out of the yard. The traffic dropped to a dribble and a family passed before him in a car, with two children waving the flag from the car's windows. Future is alive, playful and childish, he thought. 


The lines were being sung over the radio floated in the air...


'Then conquer we must, when our cause, it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in truimph shall wave
O'ver the land of free and the home of the brave'


The first line always intrigued the old man; when he fought in WW II and when his sons were out there fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Is the cause just?' He questioned but failed to decipher the responses he received. Only one who can safeguard mankind's future - 'God'. As he dozed off to sleep in his condo and his dog piled up in front of the half-lit fireplace, the fireworks lit up the night sky on July 4th.