Martial Machismo: At What Cost

A good work of art, though it may be the product of one person’s experience, is timeless and universal.  By that standard, the song “At What a Cost”* by Mark Lentz is, to my mind, a great work of art.  In war, there are always the grand planners at the top, but the actual dirty business has to be carried out by other human beings at the bottom.  The price paid by those at the bottom seldom weighs very much in the calculations of the grand planners at the top, and if there is folly in the plans, no one sees it better than those at the bottom. Listening to “At What a Cost” the first lines that come to…

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