How do we deal with this?

I recently watched a movie called 11’09’’01- September 11. Eleven directors from all around the world were asked to make a movie about September 11th in eleven minutes. I watched a scene filmed by the director from the United States and a scene filmed by the director from Iran. Both clips showed ways to deal with the catastrophic events of September 11 and the current Iraq war. Immediately I was struck by the similarities of both films. I quickly realized how the pain and suffering endured, after the events of the attack, became universal. We do not all have to be from the same place, believe in the same things, or even fight for the same rights, to experience terror and have similar reactions. I’ve begun analyzing my original title for this blog by calling it a culture of war. I am not sure if I believe that war has its’ own culture. While individuals construct war, the consequences of war happen to everyone in that culture. However, in cases where there are child soldiers, for example, like in Uganda, children are brought into war and end up being factors of war. There have been so many documentaries and films made and books written about September 11 and the Iraq war. Yet, I wonder how much information about the war in Uganda or even the horrible thought that children are being used to fight in the war is being put out in the public’s view. I hope my blog has an effect on people’s perceptions and, perhaps, create a new dialogue about the use of child soldiers. I hope it helps to stop the sad reality.