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Almost as old as human conflict is the commemoration of conflict in art. The earliest paintings of humans at war go back some 10,000 years and depict men fighting over territory, resources, and even women captives. Through all the centuries that have since passed, the arts have been a part of the human experience of war, whether in paintings, sculpture, or music. Now, in movies and even video games, man is compelled to create even as he destroys. To take brush in hand and try to get the intense emotions experienced during war onto a canvas. To share that experience of war with others, to inform and perhaps even to warn.