Micha Haight, top center, follows the casket of her husband, Spc. Charles G. Haight during his funeral at the Main Post Chapel Monday, Jan. 5, 2004, at Fort Lewis, Wash. Haight was killed Dec. 26, 2003, while serving with 14th Engineer Battalion in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Ron Soliman)

U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. Top row from left: Spc. Michael A. Diraimondo, Spc. Luke Frist, Spc. Christopher A. Golby, and Capt. Kimberly Hampton. Bottom row from left: Chief Warrant Officer Ian D. Manuel, Spc. Solomon C. Bangayan and Spc. Nathaniel H. Johnson. (AP Photo/Files)

Sarkis Artin cries on the coffin of his wife Suna Kasimian, who was killed when assailants opened fire on a minibus in which she was traveling in Fallujah, Iraq, on Thursday, during her funeral in Baghdad Friday, Jan. 23, 2004. Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying Iraqi women to work at a U.S. military base Thursday, killing four of them, relatives said. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Iraqi Sunni muslims pray, during a funeral Wednesday Dec. 10, 2003, by the coffins of three people killed in a blast by a Baghdad mosque, on Tuesday. Three people were killed and two injured in Tuesday's blast. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Pallbearers from the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army carry Command Sgt. Maj. Jerry L. Wilson's casket after his funeral at Springfield Baptist Church in Thomson, Ga., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003. Wilson, 45, and another soldier - Spec. Rel A. Ravago IV, 21, of Glendale, Calif. - were killed Nov. 23 when their vehicle was attacked in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Andrew Davis Tucker)

...Fixed in the drag of the world's heartbreak,
Eating and drinking, toiling. . . on a long job of killing.
Sixteen million men.

I feel it fits to quote the end of poems...about war and death...