CAPWARD
For hundreds of years, people have been fighting for freedom and fighting for change against a system that has valued worth in wealth and privilege; that has has put the well-being of one group over the other. You can see it in every corner an every aspect of modern history: From the War of Independence and the French Revolution to Wolfe Tone and the Rebellion of 1798. When I went to war against the Nazis, I was fighting for the very same thing: Freedom. The end of oppression and the rights that we all have, or ought to have.
But don't get me wrong. I know damn well that what people died for on those fields, in a few decades time, didn't matter. The rich still get richer and the poor and desperate still go ignored by systems of government and by organisations who are looking for cash; not compassion.
Our social structure is corrupt, but I don't believe that we would still be fighting for change, fighting for liberty and for better options for everyone if there wasn't some goodness in humanity that did desperately want harmony and the treatment of others the same way as they want to be treated. That's what I believe in. That there is good in people and that the tragedy is that it's so hard to support, because it's easier to fall into the corrupt wheel that keeps the world going and try to use it to your advantage. It's hard to stand up, identify what's wrong and do something about it.
But it's impossible for me to live any other way. I have to stand by what I believe.