(159 words) Kindness is primarily an affectionate, caring, friendly attitude towards others, sometimes even a willingness to sacrifice your interests for their good.
It would seem that the thin red-haired soldier who took the bag of oatmeal from Sergeant Lukashuk and his comrades did not do the right thing: everyone at the front is equally hungry and cold, according to the law, it is necessary to share supplies. So this story would have been forgotten, if not for the second meeting, already on the battlefield. The red-haired soldier, who turned out to be a nurse, saved the sergeant. Lukashuk saw with his own eyes that oatmeal was intended for dogs that transported the wounded. The soldiers showed kindness to their four-legged helpers and were ready to starve, if only the dogs were alive and well.
In A. Mashistova’s book “Animals in War” a large number of poems are devoted to horses - faithful servants of the military. The owners took care of their horses, saved pieces of sugar for them, tried not to overload them with provisions and uniforms. Without the manifestation of kindness at the forefront, one cannot survive.
Thus, kindness is a necessary quality not only in war, but also in everyday life.
Example from the movie: In the film “Foal” by V. A. Fetin, a fighter cannot kill a just-born foal and leaves him alive. Even on the front line, where death is a common thing, a person does not lose innate kindness and cannot kill a defenseless living creature. Perhaps it was precisely because the Russian soldier did not lose his best qualities in the battle that our country defeated Nazi Germany.
Media example: Recently, I read in the newspaper the memories of children of the war about life in the territories during the occupation, when people tried to save not only themselves, but also their cats, dogs, cows, chickens, horses, goats. They hid pets in the woods, not allowing the enemy to control their fate. Despite the famine, the inhabitants of the occupied territory spared their animals, protecting them from extermination.
Life example: My parents' acquaintances, participants in local conflicts of recent years, talk about how carefully the harsh military treat animals that for some reason ended up in a combat zone. For example, one soldier crawled twenty meters under enemy fire to save a lost puppy.
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