Actually, the war on Iraq never abated since Desert Storm - the children's' death causing embargos, bombings of radar installations, etc.
All the above mention 'wars' on little nations were dishonorable. Conglomerate owned media's saccharine and effusive praise of the U.S. deaths suffered is meant to paint these deplorable wars as honorable and attractive to adolescent boys and girls. That mature Americans fall for this is an indication of the gullible state of the great silent majority American mind.
Americans do not consider the devastation their fallen soldiers brought to the lives of the thousand fold greater number of families in foreign lands who saw their loved ones cut down for having gotten in 'harms way' of invading and occupying U.S. military.
Another farcical military Memorial Day of unctuous praise for the American dead with deliberate indifferent scorn for families of millions of dead non-Americans. Another inhuman media attitude of praising the wars corporate owned media suckered the nation into accepting.
Speak to your minister, priest or rabbi about Memorial Day disdain and insult through abject indifference to the bereavement of families of civilians slaughtered in the American wars we celebrate on Memorial Day.
Why must we honor the media misled and deceived American servicemen and women who died oblivious to the uselessness of their sacrifice and their having been entrapped into the taking of foreign lives on their own sacred soil for which we the acquiescent public have ultimate responsibility and shame. While we mourn the lives of our loved ones we should mourn our ignorance and complicity in having sent them to their death while encouraging them to kill others.
Three million Vietnamese, two million Koreans, one million Iraqis, a half million Laotians and Cambodians, tens of thousands of Afghanis, three thousand Dominicans, six hundred Panamanians, sixty-nine Grenadians lives are depreciated on America's festive flags flying Memorial Day. We celebrate having killed our brothers and sisters in ignorance. We most certainly don't recognize those that killed our soldiers back were also our brothers and sisters.
Peoples historian Howard Zinn has backed this author's efforts to organize an ad hoc committee for the creation of a public day of mourning for all victims of war, including all the combatants of both and all sides who were involved, besides of course the enormously greater civilian dead and maimed.
If the human race is going to survive war, such a day of universal mourning for all war's victims will surely be created sooner or later.
On such a 'War Victims Day', the civilian deaths and the deaths of enemy soldiers would be remembered along with those of the nations military.
For wars and the homicide, maiming and destruction that wars produce are nothing more than the failure of international and national politics to restrain murderously inconsiderate economic propellants of greed, self-interest and false patriotism in blind disregard of our wondrous humanity.
While Memorial Day for most Americans means a three or four day holiday week-end, for American dissidents it is a day of ignominious military worship meant to insure that the young will continue to be cannon fodder in emulation of achieving the esteem granted those so highly praised as deceased and sleeping heroes on each Memorial Day.
The most appropriate resolve to accompany mourning the tragic and violent early termination of the life of a loved serviceman, duped into fighting in horrific wars, should be to work to expose the lies of the profiteering businessmen, their collaborating corrupt elected officials and their cooperating unscrupulous hired commercial media personnel. This is the resolve of Cindy Sheehan as she mourns her own failure in not having stopped her son from going to war.
Albert Einstein said wars will stop when people refuse to fight them. That's why we honor champion Muhammad Ali above those who went and fought.
Stop military and pro-war media gross misuse of Memorial Day and make it inclusive of all victims of war.
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