This Memorial Day, Let Us Remember

American Thinker ^ | 26 May, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

I noticed something years ago about class descriptions on college campuses. If a course’s subject matter included the word “war,” it was much more popular with students. A seminar on “organizational theory” might find a few takers; a seminar on “military organization and war planning” would attract too many students for most classrooms to hold. I asked a professor about this once, and he grinned slyly, reminding me that young professors who teach popular classes have greater career prospects. The observation struck me as a bit perverse.

At a fundamental level, war fascinates people. They can’t get enough of it. Organized violence appeals to their death drive or need for adventure. Young students gather in the yard to protest violence on the other side of the world, but they also sign up for classes that offer an academic exploration of violence in its most disturbed forms.

For some students, I believe, “studying war” feels like “serious business.” Compared to someone getting a degree in the “gender-affirming artwork of transsexual cats,” they have a point. Still, a lot of young people seek out classes on war not because they wish to be good soldiers or wise citizens but because engaging with subjects that involve life and death allow armchair theorists to feel a bit of the “action.”

I have been in many rooms that included servicemembers pursuing classwork as part of their career advancement. There is a vast canyon of knowledge separating those who have read about war from those who have been in war. I’ve seen smart people deliver incredibly detailed remarks about what kind of strategies the U.S. military should pursue around the world. Their arguments are grounded in theory and filled with references to the most famous academics from the last hundred years.

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[MtnClimber]

Thank you to all who gave all for our freedom. We should all remember and try to be worthy of the sacrifices.

[PGalt]

Thanks to all who have served, all who are serving, and all who will serve in the future.

[flamberge]

We remember and honor the ones who we lost in the war.

We remember and honor their names and their stories.

They left a hole in the world when they were taken.

And when their even final stories have been lost, we still remember and honor their names.

And when even their names and their stories have been lost, we still remember and honor they were here.

They left a hole in the world when they were taken.

We remember and honor them.

[Texan4Life]

Remembering Cpl. Harlon Block, USMC

[gnickgnack2]

Weslaco. My uncle from Green Bay moved to the valley and had a grapefruit farm on White Ranch Rd. I shudder as I now look at how close he was to the until-recently porous border.