[Peace-discuss] Veterans Day IVAW/Citizen Soldier Alliance conversation - on militarism and its impacts on our lives, on your vision for a better future ...

Mon Nov 11 20:53:17 UTC 2013

well put, mort.

On 11/12/13 1:03, Brussel, Morton K wrote:
> My response to a message I received about Veterans Day follows:
>
> /Please remove me from your email list: I do not subscribe to the 
> notion that our veterans, post WWII, are heros. Instead, they have 
> been, in large part, pawns of our military-industrial complex, and 
> have served to wreak havoc on innumerable countries of no threat to 
> us. They have been responsible for untold innocent deaths, not just 
> their own. Individually, no doubt many have been brave, if naive, 
> often being taken advantage of due to their economic circumstances as 
> civilians. Noxious propaganda, and enticements, have succeeded in 
> getting them to enlist . /
> /
> /
> /This worship of the military has become a corrosive disease. /
> /Armistice Day had some moral meaning, not Veterans Day. /
> /
> /
> /--mkb/
>
> On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Annie Kuster wrote:
>
>> Morton --
>>
>> Veterans Day is a day to truly honor all of the brave heroes who 
>> serve or have served in our Armed Forces.
>>
>> But, this day always reminds me that we owe our veterans so much more 
>> than just one day of thanks. They deserve to have a system that 
>> treats them as the heroes that they are. I fight every day so that we 
>> can do better for our veterans because they deserve that and so much 
>> more.
>>
>> I am proud to report progress on my top priorities for our nations' 
>> veterans with two of my bills now passed in the House - automation of 
>> benefits claims to tackle the backlog and whistleblower protection 
>> for victims of military sexual assault.
>>
>> I hope you’ll join me today in giving thanks to them and showing your 
>> support and that you too will use this as a reminder to treasure our 
>> servicemen and women not just today but every day.
>>
>> As they never stop for us, I will never stop fighting for them. Our 
>> veterans are the true heart of America and what makes this country so 
>> great!
>>
>> Eternally grateful,
>>
>> Annie
>>
>> Paid for by Kuster For Congress Inc.
>>
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Stuart Levy wrote:
>
>> /Today is Veterans Day - originally Armistice Day, marking not war 
>> but the peace at the end of the First World War./
>>
>> http://www.ivaw.org/blog/veteransday-social-media-dialogue-broadening-conversation-war-home-and-abroad
>>
>> Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and Civilian Soldier Alliance 
>> <http://www.civsol.org/> are launching a *social media campaign to 
>> shift the dialogue** around Veteran's day,* Monday, November 11th 
>> this year from one that implicitly supports war by avoiding any 
>> conversations of its costs towards a frank conversation on how U.S. 
>> militarism tears at the fabric that bonds our communities and has 
>> real impacts on peoples lives.  [...]
>>
>> Conversation around Veterans Day are usually centered on sacrifice. 
>> This silences a deeper reflection on why, or whether those sacrifices 
>> are necessary in the first place.
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> Do you believe that our police forces are looking and acting more and 
>> more like soldiers? Do you think that the war in Afghanistan should 
>> have ended years ago (or better yet never happened) and that we 
>> should pull troops out now? Are you against a militarized border with 
>> Mexico? Do you believe that the impacted communities of wars deserve 
>> the right to heal and United States accountability to ensure it 
>> happens? Anyone who is interested in discussing, learning more about, 
>> or influencing the national discussion on the effects of U.S. 
>> militarism overseas and at home is invited to join us!
>>
>>
>>         *What can you do?*
>>
>> Tweet and Facebook post your own experience or your community’s 
>> experiences with US militarism. How have you been impacted by the 
>> wars abroad or the war at home? Feel free to talk about your vision 
>> for a better future free of militarized “solutions”.
>>
>>
>> [thanks to Meg Miner and Sarah Lazare for pointing out that this is 
>> happening...]
>>
>>
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