Reply #49

realizing that your cousin died for the oil companies and George Bush's ego.

In the past ten years, thousands of young Americans have died in combat for no good reason. If they thought they were "serving their country," they were deceived. Maybe it makes their families feel better to think of them as "heroes," but a hero is someone who dies for a WORTHY cause.

The country would have been better off if all the military personnel had said, "This war makes no sense. We're not going."

The older I get, the less I buy that "patriotism=militarism" bullshit.

In fact, I avoid all Memorial Day and Fourth of July celebrations, because I used to be a college professor, and when armchair patriots get all misty about "our heroic men and women," I see the boys and girls I used to teach, young people with their whole lives ahead of them. Lost. And for what?