A Soulful Journey

 "After the first death there is no other."  - Dylan Thomas When confronted with death for the first time there us a sense of utter disbelief, incomprehension.  While there is pain in all other passings it is the first that is most painful.

  “…It would be a travesty of the purpose of the charter to compel a defending state to allow its opponents to deliver the first fatal blow.” –Lord Chancellor Kilmuir before the House of Lords So it is with war, which is followed by bloodshed.   Choosing to go to war with a first strike may be a wise move militarily but consider the consequences.