Posted on 05/26/2015 8:07:24 AM PDT by Zakeet
Memorial Day and Veteran's Day often get equated, but there is an essential distinction between the two. Veteran's Day honors all who have served the American military in wars. Memorial Day honors those who've perished. It's an annual reminder that wars have grave human costs, which must be both recognized and minimized.
Those costs are not inevitable. We ought to also set aside time to remember those throughout American history who have tried hardest to reduce them, to prevent unnecessary loss of life both American and foreign: war resisters.
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War resistors can be heroes
American history is littered with examples of pointless wars fought for bad reasons, and with people who risked their careers and their freedom to oppose them. The Mexican-American War, for one, was a blatant land grab. ... World War I was if anything more pointless than the Mexican-American War. The best that could be said of American involvement in the conflict is that it helped bring seemingly ceaseless bloodshed between European nations to a quicker close. But the war itself was fought for no great principle. It was not a fight against tyranny; Germany was a constitutional monarchy, much like Great Britain, and the Allies counted Czarist Russia among their ranks. It was not redressing any unprovoked invasion. It was a tragic unfurling of alliances that claimed 10 million lives and laid the groundwork for both Stalinism and Nazism.
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Some wars aren't worth fighting. Some causes aren't worth sacrificing American lives for. Those who've fought to remind the government of those basic facts deserve our respect and our thanks.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
OUCH!
I wish I could find the quote, By James A. Garfield I believe. That said something to the effect Every Man who talks down his country, Every Man who Fled to Canada To Avoid the Draft - Is a Democrat
We do - its called Christmas and Easter!
The so-called "anti-war" left are full of it. They aren't really anti-war. They're just anti-American military victories. They've never met a bloody leftist uprising they didn't support. They worship mass murderers like Mao tse Tung. They are anything but pacifists.
We need a “make a commie disappear day” to celebrate so that Americans can finally rid this great Country of the liberal socialist who are destroying this Nation!
BUMP!!
Remember there is an Department of Peace institute in DC.
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they could call it the Nevil Chamberlin award.
We already have a day to celebrate those who stop wars; August 6, 1945!!!
It’s time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars too.
We alreay do dipshit.. Its called Veterans Day.
There are no barf bags big enough to accommodate this alleged article.
All they do is extend wars far beyond their natural lifespan.
Shoot at that age I could not wait to be on my own. It was not easy but could not wait to get out.
Why? Because Mom and Dad set the example of hard work. They did not have to say a word about it.
“It’s time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars too”
Neville Chamberlain Day, right? I think the Brits already have a holiday with that name.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Of course not everyone who is against war communists. But the leaders and organizers of the “anti-war” movement certainly are. In fact, both major “peace” coalitions is organized by a communist org. United for Peace and Justice, Communist Party USA. ANSWER/Party for Socialism and Liberation, Workers World Party. CPUSA actually supported Stalin. WWP, North Korea, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Most of the people who participate in these events are ‘useful idiot’ mindless dupes, too dumb and naive to know that they are being used.
They aren’t anti-war at all, they just believed we were fighting on the wrong side.
Most of the young and naive participants probably are. ie, the ones being used by the communist organizers to advance their anti-American, anti-Capitalist agenda.
The greatest peace makers in the history of the world have been the American GI’s - wherever they are deployed, peace follows.
That is until Obama came along.
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