While looking at Jean Hugo's Le regard de la mémoire titled "The Desert and Hell" I immediately could see what the photographer was attempting to depict. The pictures illustrates a desolate world, in this case the nation of France and the bloodshed the nation endured. In the tree a body of a man can be seen contrasting a tree's representation of light and life with the darkness of death. The tree itself is barren showing how all life is affected by humans' war. The rest of the picture shows a desolate landscape with no grass or vegetation of any sort.This reminded me of how Global Warming effects our planet. With people having no respect or care for the environment it will not only destroy the planet around us it will help destroy us as well. This picture is pivotal to not only understand the magnitude of World War I but it helps illustrate what happens during any conflict. It seems to me those people who are always preaching "the War in Iraq was right" or "let's just blow the whole place up" seem to put aside any type of moral compass and use their anger and adrenaline as reasons to fight. War brings DEATH and nothing else. In this country we are lucky to have never seen our nation invaded by foreigners and not seen our homes destroyed by incoming missiles or gunfire. If those in power step back and truly examine war and the ugliness it brings we as a world would have less problems. The death of one innocent person due to a war between nations is unacceptable and as human beings we should stand up against war as a "quick go to solution". That's what was done in Iraq and to this day our military is still fighting. Was it really worth it? NOT AT ALL!
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