Welcome to the War

The Lion watches out for his pride.

That's what a very dear friend once told me.

I was reading in a book, called The Passage, by Justin Cronin. A paragraph stands out to me that I don't think I will ever forget. It goes something like this in Chapter five, page 84:

The war - the real war, the one that had been going on for a thousand years and would go on for a thousand more - the war between Us and Them, between the Haves and the Have-Nots, between my gods and your gods, whoever you are - would be fought by men like Richards: men with faces you didn't notice and couldn't remember, dressed as busboys or cab drivers or mailmen, with silencers tucked up their sleeves...

Later, in the same paragraph it says:

-all the subjects hadn't changed, they never would, all coming down, after you'd boiled away the bullshit, to some body's quarterly earnings report and who got to sit where - but now the war was everywhere, metastasizing like a million manic cells run amok across the planet, and everyone was in it.

I've got to give it to Cronin, those are some true, and deep words. Its amazing what the public doesn't know. What we, as uninformed people let slip past us as myth and half truths. When really the truth is right in front of us.

There is a War going on right beneath our noses. Wither you see it or not. Well, that's your decision.

Welcome to the War, Americas war, be it poverty, gangs, domestic violence, or whatever cause you stand for. There is always a war for it.

So welcome to it America.