Memorial Day- an honoring of WAR ?

Image from anti-war movie based on veteran Ron Kovic's book

Is it patriotic not ever to THINK ? What an unmitigated disaster was the Bush Iraq War. Today's news from Iraq must be painfully bleak to any American soldier with idealistic illusions who fought there, was terribly injured there. Can we not ever rise above all those Memorial Day buzz words ? We know them all too well, hear them in every jingoistic speech.

Considering how LIVING veterans of our dubious wars are treated, I think Memorial Day has become more an honoring of WAR than an honoring of millions of veterans- of good and bad -wars. ( was there ever a truly GOOD war ? ).

Read my other blog regarding this topic.

                                " Born on the Fourth of July ".