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Showing Original Post only (View all)This may not be a popular idea, but we didn't fight for your freedom. [View all]
Every Memorial Day and Fourth of July I get an email by our class news letter guy. We graduated high school in 1964 so just about the whole class of an all boys Catholic school was in the military. The email is sent to everyone of our class mates that is still alive.
He lists everyone who was in the service and the branch of service. Just about all of us served in the Vietnam war in some capacity.
Then he gives this long rant about how we are free because of the service of the vets. It may be true that we haven't been attacked since Peril Harbor because we have a strong military and we were a part of it, but none of us fought in a war to protect our freedoms.
We fought to protect the war profiteers. President Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex but we never took what he said to heart.
The Korean, Vietnam, Granada, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and maybe Syria wars were never about our freedoms. They were about maintaining or over throwing some political regime for the growing of the wealth of the 1%.
Those of us who served were pawns and the pawns are usually kids of the lower economic classes.
So go ahead and say we fought for your freedom if that makes you feel good, but that meme will never get us to the truth and will never prevent the next mass "hair on fire" run up to war that some Cheney type individual will present to you in the future,
