I gave it up for Lent, but on Easter Sunday, I decided that rather than pigging out on the kids Easter candy, I would continue not eating it as my sacrifice for the war.
Maybe you think it's a puny symbol, but you don't know how much I like chocolate.
I've given up eating chocolate until "the war" is over, all of them.
We are at war, but we aren't giving up anything, there is no call for our participation. And in some cases (Afghanistan) no call for us to remember that we are even there. Well, everytime I don't eat chocolate (you can imagine how often), I think about Afghanistan and Iraq and Guantanamo.
So I don't eat chocolate. And when people offer me a chocolate treat, I tell them, "No thanks, I've given up chocolate until the war's over".
Almost everyone says, "You know that you may never eat chocolate again?".