ON MEMORIAL DAY, we honor the brave americans who gave their lives, fighting to try to serve america. May the dear lord bless and keep them. I do not say that they died for freedom, or anything else, other than national survival. Sometimes they died trying to split the country in half, sometimes they died trying to prop up dictatorships, because those dictatorships were capitalistic, rather than socialistic.
sometimes they died while roaming around the world looking for terrorists who were hard to find, and might not even have been in the country in which our brave americans were fighting, serving, and looking. Freedom is relative, perhaps everyone who has ever died in war has, in a sense, died for freedom; for the freedom of his or her country to continue being a dictatorship, an empire, or an incubator of terrorists.
Nonetheless, memorial day is a fitting and proper way to honor the brave ones who died, for america.
But should we not also have a holiday, a big, important holiday, honoring the cause of peace, and the high ideal of abolishing war from earth? Isn't that a sufficiently worthy cause to commemorate? And on this hypothetical holiday, shouldn't we come clean, and acknowledge that all warfare is, on a higher level of thinking, needless and destructive, and a momunent to our continuing barbarity as a species?
ON that as yet nonexistant holiday we should perhaps fly no flags, for are not flags ultimately symbols of the separation of humanity from itself, the pitting of nation against nation, army against army, soldier against soldier?
come, let us together honor peace, on a worldwide planetary holiday, in which we honor not what has been, but rather what we strive for, and what we could become.
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