At the advent of the twentieth century, it would seem that human nature reached its peak. This century saw some of the largest and most barbarous conflicts history has ever known, and with new technology in the hands of psychotic individuals, anything was possible. Taking advantage and deifying the power they wielded, they would lose their innocence. Some would lose their innocence while in power, while others in the wars they fought in, and many times in revolts that topple a corrupt power, and becoming nothing more than that corrupt power. But really, what does the loss of innocence really entail? What is an example of a loss of innocence and what constitutes it? For someone who has experienced a loss of innocence himself in war, William
