War Legacies

War is a phenomenon which can leave a decisive influence on the lives and language of the people of a country for decades to come. Some of the results of a war have direct relation with its outcome of victory or defeat. Some other consequences are created by war itself. The current work studies two post-war outcomes: First, the phenomenon in which death becomes something ordinary and everyday; the persistence of such a phenomenon can lead to the institutionalization of death in people s lives and minds and can have its own effects. Second, the divisions that government critics make of the logic and process ruling on the lives of the people at the time of peace; this can especially be seen among those who want to revive the ideals and values of some former times.