(1) Each war is generated by unique causes.

(2) What is common to each war, however, is the production of dead bodies. Wars create dead bodies.

(3) Dead bodies constitute a principle of verification. That for which human beings die becomes true.

(4) The death of one's own soldiers (and civilians) and of enemy soldiers (and civilians) count equally. 

(5) Memorials exist throughout the world reminding us of what human beings have died for.

(6) We prove we are human by dying for something.