1/ Over a million Americans have died fighting for this country. Some were drafted, some volunteered, some died in wars that were righteously fought while others of those wars were tragically and even criminally misguided.
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2/ Today we remember the soldiers themselves, the majority of whom died horrific deaths far away from home. This is a holiday, but not a happy one. A day to remember, to thank others for their sacrifice, and commit to the creation of a world in which war will be merely a memory.
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3/ We continue to countenance a $750B defense budget tho no one can exactly tell us why. We can’t have an economy so predicated on the production of military equipment & at the same time say how much we care about all the war & destruction & death caused by war.
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4/ Some wars are righteous, some are not. But our modern wars have not been. The soldiers who died in Viet Nam & Iraq died more because of the folly of the American defense establishment and its unholy alliance with the military industrial complex than they died to defend freedom
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5/ It is wrong for us to mourn their deaths today unless we’re also willing to mourn, and take responsibility for, the real reasons why so many of them died.
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6/ Perhaps we can end America’s militaristic madness. Perhaps we will begin to spend more of our resources on proactively creating the conditions of peace, and less on fighting the wars of profit that are the parasitic result of making war just another capitalistic enterprise.
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7/ Come on, America. We can do so much better. In the memory of those brave and brilliant people who gave their lives in the service of this country, today let’s commit to ourselves that their service will not have been in vain. Let this be a day when we commit to waging peace.
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