Here is the reason I feel war movies hit home with me / us, no matter if we are pro-war, anti-war, pacifist, (there are no positive antonyms to pacifist). We are all at war. Spiritual war. Sometimes that gets lost or overlooked in church, prayer and daily life. But war is raging all around us. This hit me after one of the many marathons of watching Band of Brothers. I was saddened that I did not have that camaraderie with my friends as brother soldiers do from shared experiences. I felt my family had’t done much in fighting for our freedoms and values, because none had served. Than I saw it all in a different light my parents were pastors and than missionaries. Many of my uncles and cousins are pastors. My grandpa spent the beginning of every day of his life on his knees, and I knew he was fighting for us all. My whole family was serving in the largest war we are ever going to see. Everyday we are fighting battles. I seem to lose more than win, but the war isn’t over. I’m no saying we Christians need to be gung-ho militaristic, please no not that, we can not be that way. However we do need to realize that we are fighting a war. Its a Spiritual war and because we can not physically see it, we seem to forget it rages on. We perhaps need to alter our view from sitting in pews singing hymns and all is peaceful, and look beyond the walls of the church and see one hell of a battle being waged by forces we can not see. I hope I do not come off hokey or as a debbie downer.