Faithful Elephants

The Morals of War
By Don Coalts

War is a time of brutal reality that is sometimes hard to present to the younger aged members of our society. “Faithful Elephants” by, Yukio Tsuchiya presents the story of three elephants; John, Tonky, and Wanly.
These elephants must be killed in fear of a bombing on the zoo setting the elephants free to cause chaos in the streets. So, their trainers, the closest people to the elephants, their family, must be the ones to do the killing of the elephants. This shows that war can ef...