Singers Silenced by War ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Singers Silenced by War ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The 20th Century is marked by the loss of voices cut short in mid-song by war. There have been so many dark centuries in the history of Christendom that one hesitates to call any particular century the darkest of all. Some have been as dark as the 20th century, but none have been as deadly. In terms of the sheer body count, the 20th century, with its wars of irreligion and its access to industrialized weapons of mass destruction, is the most mur…