So how should we regard veterans?
Especially the ones who were disabled and left to die on the street or forgotten on a back VA ward--lonely,forgotten,left with memories from hell and the nightmares that never stop.
The graves are decorated nicely.
The band music is rousing and heroic and the flags are waving and "Taps" makes you cry but there are just too many of those tombstones for opium profit wars ( Vietnam and Afghanistan) and price-gouging, supesized no bid contracts for bankster cronies in Iraq...and the wars worldwide mission creep continues...
Veterans denied medical care and benefits promised while the money is skilmmed and who knows where it really goes?
Certainly, veterans are heroes, but perhaps in a bogus cause.
ISIS/ISIL RECRUITS END UP AS INVOLUNTARY ORGAN DONORS, dupes and mercenaries.
We have all been duped for a very long time. Those who have been affected by the Pentagon and unconvinced by the lies, doublespeak, convoluted logic and infinite legalistic that some drunk political hack festooned with ribbons and stamped out medals is demanding, no,ordering you to believe because he SAYS so without truth or corroborating evidence and bullsh*t reasoning brings a taint of pathos and cynicism when I look back on what I saw in the military.
Thank God I kept those thought to myself as I had to survive virulent attempts on my life in Basic Training for being the "wrong" religion.
The camaraderie and sense of purpose my Dad & his friends talked about during WW II wasn't happening in this military. We were non-combatants being trained to kill and every night was gladiator struggle after the lights went out.
They were running sleep deprivation on us to tear down our basic personality. We were worthless,stupid,etc. If I knew that was going to happen I would have remained an ultra-Orthodox Jew. So the destruction of personality did not work for me. Neither did the English language comprehension tests and other batteries of tests i was subjected to in order to find out why I wouldn't "break" into blind obedience.
When the Filipina recruit told me why she was moving to another bunk "so I won't get your blood on me" and a few nights later I overhead " how we are going to get rid of the damn Jew, I was saved when my Congressman interceded fir me. He saved my life.
If I had ended up in one of those nice meticulously kept military cemeteries under a white tombstone place just so---what would have been the reason they gave.
So was my Vietnam War experience.
Especially the ones who were disabled and left to die on the street or forgotten on a back VA ward--lonely,forgotten,left with memories from hell and the nightmares that never stop.
The graves are decorated nicely.
The band music is rousing and heroic and the flags are waving and "Taps" makes you cry but there are just too many of those tombstones for opium profit wars ( Vietnam and Afghanistan) and price-gouging, supesized no bid contracts for bankster cronies in Iraq...and the wars worldwide mission creep continues...
Veterans denied medical care and benefits promised while the money is skilmmed and who knows where it really goes?
Certainly, veterans are heroes, but perhaps in a bogus cause.
ISIS/ISIL RECRUITS END UP AS INVOLUNTARY ORGAN DONORS, dupes and mercenaries.
We have all been duped for a very long time. Those who have been affected by the Pentagon and unconvinced by the lies, doublespeak, convoluted logic and infinite legalistic that some drunk political hack festooned with ribbons and stamped out medals is demanding, no,ordering you to believe because he SAYS so without truth or corroborating evidence and bullsh*t reasoning brings a taint of pathos and cynicism when I look back on what I saw in the military.
Thank God I kept those thought to myself as I had to survive virulent attempts on my life in Basic Training for being the "wrong" religion.
The camaraderie and sense of purpose my Dad & his friends talked about during WW II wasn't happening in this military. We were non-combatants being trained to kill and every night was gladiator struggle after the lights went out.
They were running sleep deprivation on us to tear down our basic personality. We were worthless,stupid,etc. If I knew that was going to happen I would have remained an ultra-Orthodox Jew. So the destruction of personality did not work for me. Neither did the English language comprehension tests and other batteries of tests i was subjected to in order to find out why I wouldn't "break" into blind obedience.
When the Filipina recruit told me why she was moving to another bunk "so I won't get your blood on me" and a few nights later I overhead " how we are going to get rid of the damn Jew, I was saved when my Congressman interceded fir me. He saved my life.
If I had ended up in one of those nice meticulously kept military cemeteries under a white tombstone place just so---what would have been the reason they gave.
So was my Vietnam War experience.