innocence

This morning I helped out in the 2nd-4th grade classroom at church.  The lesson was about a couple of the 10 commandments including do no murder. The teacher asked something to the effect of "What would happen if nobody ever murdered?" And one little girl said something like "There would be no war"

I thought that was a little profound, for a 2nd grader. I'm trying to remember what my concept of war was in the 2nd grade...I think it was the Desert Storm era, and my parents had a friend serving in Saudi Arabia, and all the kids in my class wrote him letters and he sent us a packet of Saudi Arabian sand, which I thought was pretty cool. Pretty sure I had no concept of war, or that people were being killed there. I don't remember hearing about any good ole Hoosier boys dying in the war...I'm sure these kids have. For these 2nd graders, there has been a war in Iraq for as long as they've been old enough to know what war is, and with this 5 year war it is probably true for most 3rd, 4th and 5th graders as well.