War has gone on for thousands of years and the motives and feelings that accompany them have not changed. A twenty year time span is merely a "drop in the bucket". I do agree that a person enlisting in the military knows what they are enlisting for and the duties they are to carry out. I h...

Many soldiers have experienced the feelings that Ender experienced at the end of the book. The loss Ender feels for the Buggers is magnified. However, he did not personally know the men and women that died in the real missions, which would magnify the cost and loss that is incurred for both sides of...