PAKISTAN WAR, 2003-ongoing number of fatalities 51,000
DARFUR WAR, 2003-2011 number of fatalities 500,000
IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011 number of fatalities 500,000
AFGHANISTAN WAR, 2001-ongoing number of fatalities 20,000
SECOND INTIFADA, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, 2000-2009 number of fatalities 8,000
SECOND CONGO WAR, 1998-2003 number of fatalities 3,500,000
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA WAR, 1992-1995 number of fatalities 242,000
IRAN-IRAQ WAR, 1980-1988 number of fatalities 1,300,000
(Epitaph by Rudyard Kipling, 1917)
All those young lives lost for mostly no other reason as greed whether it is greed for power of greed for money. But they will never tell you that.
More on Rudyard Kipling and his motivation for writing this epitaph can be found in Book of Tales' Secret Files: Soldiers killed in Action!
There you can also find the English lyrics of the song 'Where have all the flowers gone' to which you are now listening sung in German by Marlene Dietrich. The lyrics of this song provided the title for this piece 'Where have all the young men gone' and the two finishing lines below.
Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?
