War is not Hell because Hell is a fiction.
War is steeped in blood and terror and human degradation, war is fire and steel
and deafening tumult.

The death of one human-being is a tragedy beyond any measure and war wastes humans by the shipload: Entire villages, gone. Entire
cities, gone. Entire tribes, gone. Entire races...gone.

Hero's are meaningless because heroism is meaningless: Cannibals can be heroic, fools can be heroic, perverts and dictators and liars can be heroic (your enemy can be heroic.).

Heroism and it's attendant medals, banners and awards are merely...