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 ...
How about a Holiday for those who end wars early for political purposes, and announce pullout schedules?
Who cares if thousands of innocents get murdered following the early pullouts and shirking of responsibilities.
I know, we could call it Obama Day, we could all go golfing to celebrate and even drink a beer with the guy who hit into our foursome.
Nothing irritated me more than when Carter gave amnesty to those creeps in 1977.
IMHO those who thought enough about being against the draft to give up their citizenship and move to Canada should still be there.
I wrote a letter to Carter asking him to give my brother amnesty but received no reply. (My brother was KIA in 1968, USMC).
War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything.......
Antiwar Demonstrators:
March on Washington 2009:
It is not only the uniformity of the signs, but the content that tells you who is paying for things on the liberal side, the Che Guevara signs, the fist with the rose, the A.N.S.W.E.R. signs, and so on. I agree with what you said, I think most of the them are Useful Idiots, but I hold them responsible for their actions.
I believe that the real reason a lot of them joined the communist-led "peace" movement was indeed fear of entering the military. It was never really about politics for them. They took on the 'cause' only as an excuse to avoid service.
Thank You Fred!
I have been searching everywhere!
Here is another good one.
The Democrat Party was founded on Subversion and Power Holding.
BTTT!
Mark
If any of them ever truly STOPPED any war (from happening), it would be praiseworthy. Never happened, never will.
I thought IHOP already had a Rachel Corrie special. Isn’t that enough?
Active Duty ping.
Edith Keeler Day!
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