American Empire, War Civil Rights (Minorities, Race, Immig, Vets)

Support the Troops. Of Course!

It’s just simple truth. Of course we honor those who serve or have served in uniform. We honor them directly, and also we will insist that they be treated decently by the powers that send them into conflict. That is just elementary human decency.

We honor our war dead this Memorial Day weekend. The greatest respect we could pay them would be to pledge no more wars for erroneous and misleading reasons; no more killing and wounding except for the defense of our country and our freedoms.

We also could honor our dead by caring for the living, and do better at it than we are right now.

This is the lead-in to a Memorial Day article by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship (at Truthout).

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