Veteran’s Day: Let it never be that those we honor become the fools doing the bidding of those unwilling to do their own. Let it never be that we should confuse the tactical attributes of ruthlessness, deceit, and ambush with duty, honor, and glory. Let it never be that we immortalize the service and sacrifice of soldiers in order to entice fodder to the fields of conquest. War has always served the same mammon power that cloaks a glaring reality; that victory is quite subjective when viewed in historical context. That the power it serves is but for a small moment in time; while the destruction and hatred it generates lives on. War will always be an easy route for those who have only profit to gain. In the comfort and ease of a boardroom mammon power spends the blood of someone elses child; during the destruction of someone elses land. So where is the memorial and tribute to the untold millions of innocent men, women, and children who far outnumbered the soldier and were powerless to defend themselves? Was their sacrifice nothing because it did not serve the purpose of conquest and power? Perhaps one day we will pay tribute to the fleeting and few years of peace. Perhaps one day the same level of honor shall be heaped upon those who willingly ventured into the cruelty of starvation and sickness in order to save as it is upon those who in the true reality and moment of conflict suffered and sacrificed not for ideology, flag or country; but for the man who suffered beside him. Perhaps in the end the world will exact a cruel justice upon those who truly deserve it. If that be the case; then the manna shall go to those who gave, and the thorns to those who took. To the victors go history; written in the spin of half truth and folly; and wrapped in the treasure and blood of youth. Perhaps one day the poor masses might stand and say; I will make your war no more.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:49:13 +0000
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