The first front is to penetrate our shock and denial and realize what has happened, is happening and may happen. Most of the people I talk to cannot accept that we are in a war. It is as if a lot of bad things are happening but not war. War is what is on the History Channel and what those guys in funny hats at the VFWs did. War is Steven Speilberg even though people thought his last war movie was too graphic.
War is full time, ghastly and graphic.
The fears and thoughts about death scattered throughout our waking consciousness are the second front in the war within our souls. Fear and death are powerful forces that we must harness. We harness then through connecting with others and learning to speak in new ways. Americans have for the past twenty years shown a remarkable inability to sustain our will. We broke the connections between ourselves because we gave up our will to connect.