The rise and fall of gladiatorial combat.

If you are easily offended by, or queasy at, the mentioning of blood-spilling, please skip this, or, read at your own risk.

The English Civil Wars took place during an era in which the treatment of prisoners of war did not have any set conventions or legal guidelines that were binding upon all the combatants involved in these conflicts. There were different concepts and contending notions as to how prisoners of war should be treated yet none of the competing sides during the English Civil Wars have to strictly adhere to legally binding ways of dealing with their captives. There were as will discussed in the following chapters and conclusion informal rules and procedures about how wars should or should not be conducted.

Op-ed discussing the immorality of the Bush/Cheney Administration’s use of torture and who should be held accountable.

Our veterans go to war and face conflicts which leave them physically and /or mentally scarred. They become the “forgotten” by our society, whom they made their sacrifice.