Where
have all the soldiers gone?
Long
time passing
Where
have all the soldiers gone?
Long
time ago
Where
have all the soldiers gone?
Gone
to graveyards every one
When
will they ever learn?
When
will they ever learn?
Where
Have All the Flowers Gone? By Pete Seeger
Once
again, we are about to commemorate Memorial Day. From Wikipedia:
"Memorial
Day
is a United
States federal holiday
that occurs every year on the final Monday of May. Memorial Day is a day of
remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United
States Armed Forces.
Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after
the American
Civil War
to commemorate the Union
and Confederate
soldiers who died in the Civil War. By the 20th century Memorial Day had been
extended to honor all Americans who have died while in the military
service."
That
vague, uncontroversial phrase, "Americans who have died while in the military
service", conceals the bitter, savage truth that more than one hundred thousand
U.S. soldiers have been killed, and hundreds of thousands more maimed,
physically and/or psychologically, in numerous unnecessary, illegal wars of
choice entered into by the United States, in violation of the U.S. Constitution,
since 1945. Yet we continue to "honor" the memory of these soldiers who gave
their precious lives, not in defense of our country, as politicians and media
pundits always claim, but, in reality, for the "patriotic" lies and perversely
immoral desires of the pathological, rapacious United States Empire, by
continuing to support the thoroughly avoidable illegal U.S. wars of aggression
for corporate/Wall Street profit waged by the United States without any sincere
regard for the soldiers whose unnecessary deaths and "sacrifices" we later mourn
on Memorial Day every year.
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