World War 111

We were told we were fighting for democracy but there was no democracy, just two evils one greater than the other; only people handed bad choices. It kicked off cold with a lot of hot patriotism. Many knew we were being pushed into a no-win situation while the military industrial complex grew fat on endless war. The bodies kept piling up, until news from the front got commonplace and tedious, then one day it all blew up and blew away. Many did not survive but no one died, not anyone we knew anyway. The free world walked into its newly built jails much larger than the old prisons, more space; less people.