It's a small shrimp-like creature (actually spelled PRAWN) but it's really an anagram for the true subject of this thread!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.John Stuart Mill
My most prized possession is an uncanny ability to remember old threads, and then bring them back to life when someone makes another thread about the same topic.