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David inspired me, and I submitted my letter yesterday morning to the NG as a result of the one by Tomaras attempting to counter him.
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<div class="">I don’t know if mine will be printed, but I suggest others write one up also, we need to flood the NG with letters countering war and militarism which isn’t going away, we are now looking at permanent war, because its profitable and the potential
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<div class="">My letter to the NG Editor yesterday: <br class="">
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When those who served in the military talk of "what a wonderful experience they and others had while with the US military, I ask, to what is it they are referring? Is being cannon fodder, and part of an organization used to destroy and murder innocent people,
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Do they not notice the veterans suffering from PTSD, as well as crippling physical malady’s, suffered by many returning veterans? Do they not see the homeless, nor the recorded suicides of at least two a day, every day, of US veterans. This doesn't cover the
numerous broken family's or the nightmares suffered as a result of their "service to their country."<br class="">
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I suggest speaking to “Veterans Against War,” those who served their country, only to return and become active opposing US imperialism and hegemony, whether Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, due to the horrors suffered by our soldiers, as well as "inflicted upon
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Its time the News Gazette stop glorifying wars that serve only to kill and enrich the corporate elites owning our government, wars that cripple our people while ensuring wealth for our major industry, weapons.</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 20, 2019, at 08:08, Brussel, Morton K <<a href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu" class="">brussel@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:
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Nothing unexpected here. Yes, we buy our military “volunteers”, and some do profit from it, while others flounder and are wasted in one way or another. And cost the rest of society dearly.
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<div class="">And a belated thanks for your letter.</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 19, 2019, at 11:15 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">Military service a positive experience</span></div>
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<span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Our local iconoclast and critic of American life, David Green, writes that our armed forces are predominantly drawn from the economically underprivileged “to serve as potential
cannon fodder and cops on the beat.” He concludes, “these predominantly working-class individuals serve … the interests of the capitalist class and sacrifice only to the latter’s benefit.”</span></p>
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<span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">First, I dislike “working man/working-class” terminology because, while long employed in management and thereby disqualified as a “working man,” I consistently worked more
hours per week (including every Saturday and Sunday) than the typical Monday through Fri-</span><span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> day “working man.”</span></p>
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<span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">But that is not my primary dispute with Green’s views. To realize that military service offers many positives to “working-class individuals,” one has but to read what Seon
Williams, this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Outstanding Achievement Awardee, said about his six-plus years of service: “It was the best thing I could have ever done.”</span></p>
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<span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Williams credits his success as an entrepreneur to the “discipline, responsibility, initiative, leadership and positive attitude” he learned in the service.</span></p>
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<span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Thousands of oncedisadvantaged men and women have been positively impacted by their valued service to their country. To many, our armed forces offer employable skills and
self-confidence as alternatives</span><span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> to a life of poverty</span><span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> or crime.</span></p>
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<span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Honoring veterans is</span><span class="ydp1e6ddd99Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> anything but “propaganda” and “manipulative promotion.”</span></p>
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