"It expresses so well the heartfelt sadness of soldiers forced to die meaningless deaths."
I don't send my men off to senseless, hopeless, meaningless death.
There was nothing Ham Conrad hated more than a meaningless death, save perhaps hypocrisy.
Or the chance of cooperation, which might lead to joint survival or meaningless death for all?
How could anyone wrap his mind around the meaningless deaths of hundreds of his fellow human beings?
Buy an external camera, and proceed to document her meaningless death, while Stateless collapsed in the background?
Many soldiers die obscure and meaningless deaths, I know, but they did not.
So the elders and nobles did as she told him to, and Naboth died a bitter, meaningless death.
And then the goddam press shot down the swine-flu program with their harping about a few meaningless statistical deaths.
Your eventual, meaningless death will be just one of the untold billions in the history of our race.