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It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« on: May 26, 2015, 05:21:04 pm »
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/25/8656381/war-resisters-memorial-day

It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too

Updated by Dylan Matthews on May 25, 2015, 4:00 p.m. ET

Memorial Day and Veterans Day often get equated, but there is an essential distinction between the two. Veterans Day honors all who have served the American military in wars. Memorial Day honors those who've perished. It's an annual reminder that wars have grave human costs, which must be both recognized and minimized.

Those costs are not inevitable. We ought to also set aside time to remember those throughout American history who have tried hardest to reduce them, to prevent unnecessary loss of life both American and foreign: war resisters.

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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2015, 05:38:38 pm »
Amen!
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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2015, 05:45:49 pm »
We do, they are called Veterans Day and Memorial Day.

These are honoring those who actually work to stop wars in the only way that has ever worked, defeating the enemy.

Drum circles and sending positive vibes has never stopped a war.
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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 05:52:36 pm »
Let's be honest, please.
 
War resisters don't try to stop wars: they try to avoid having to fight in them. There's no excuse for trying to pass off cowardice as moral integrity.
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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2015, 08:42:50 pm »
Cowardice day? I'm too scared to fight in war day??
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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2015, 10:08:08 pm »
I'll go for it if the holiday consists of rounding the skels up and shooting them.
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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2015, 02:38:08 am »
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Abraham Lincoln, then in his only term as a congressman from Illinois, questioned Polk's rationale and introduced what came to be known as the "spot resolutions" demanding that the president point out the exact spot on which American blood had been spilled, to prove that it was really American land. Lincoln received vociferous attacks from Democratic newspapers and meetings back in his district; participants at one rally condemned him as "this Benedict Arnold of our district." But he was on the right side of history: the war was unjustified and caused needless suffering.
Of course, if we're only speaking of war resistance, we'd better forget what he did 15 years later.
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Re: It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2015, 12:46:22 pm »
The problem is that most 'antiwar' people are commies who aren't really antiwar. That's just their trojan horse to drive a nation into impotence, self-doubt, and instability via sedition, so that they can create a power vacuum giving them the opportunity to take over, and then bait-and-switch with a totalitarian dictatorship.
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