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Did you see David Green’s letter, it was his I was supporting.
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<div class="">On Jan 24, 2019, at 17:26, John W. <<a href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com" class="">jbw292002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Thank you, Karen. Yes, it's a good letter.</div>
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<div class="">The military has served as a vehicle of upward social mobility and decent retirement income for a lot of black people, whose opportunities elsewhere were limited. But of course they've had to ignore the larger implications of what they were engaged
in and contributing to. Muhammad Ali, famously, did NOT ignore those larger implications.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 6:30 PM Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com" class="">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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I have posted it on the Peace List, but now will post it to you and the Peace Discuss List, I never get it right.
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This was written to support David Green’s excellent letter. <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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>> It's 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.<br class="">
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