Yesterday was Memorial Day. I feel two ways about it. On the one hand, we honor the men and women who have died in service to the United States. (Which men and women? How far back? Do we honor the slaves who were forced into service during the civil war? The Black men drafted during WWI and segregated, forced to serve as stevedores and cooks?)
The other way I feel is angry. The people who died in service since WWII have died in action during conflicts the US shouldn't have been involved in to begin with. We have no business invading other countries, destabilizing their government, and walking away. Our country pays trillions in "defense" and little of that goes to protect our troops. Rather it goes for expensive equipment we'll never use to defend against a world that fears us. Instead that money could go to fully fund all of the things our country needs-infrastructure, feeding the hungry, public schools, ending homelessness.
Decrease the military funding, stop sending our military troops overseas and we won't have to honor more dead.
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