annaomni.blogg.se - A veterans warning smedley butler

If you believe that veterans should have adequate health care, watch the Ron Kovics video mentioned above. If you believe the banks should not seize the homes of military men and women while they are fighting overseas or recovering in hospitals, write letters, sign petitions, call your Congressperson. Thousands are homeless thousands are drug and alcohol abusers. Increasing numbers of veterans are committing suicide because of what they were trained to do, made to do.

Let us particularly remember and honor all the war veterans living in this country today, and honor them not just by words but by activism on their behalf. Howard Zinn, survivor of World War II, tireless anti-war activist, and one of the dedicatees of this blog. Ross Caputi, anti-war Iraq war veteran and activist educator regarding Fallujah see.David Connolly, another anti-war Vietnam vet and poet see.Ron Kovic, survivor of the Vietnam War, and author of Born on the Fourth of July.Marine Corps, who tried to explain to the American people why “ War is a racket.” For a powerful reenactment of his famous “War is a racket” speech, click on the video above.

General Smedley Butler (1881-1940), a highly decorated major general in the U.S.

Among those honorable veterans, let us give thanks to: Let us honor in particular the veterans who have come back home from war to fight for peace. Let us not honor the media that are in bed with the war profiteers and use their own sophisticated weapons, such as propaganda, to send off generation after generation of good people to kill and be killed. Let us not honor the war profiteers and the military industrial complex. Let us remember and honor the young men and women who have gone forth to war, believing they were fighting for a good cause.