Monday, May 28, 2018

Looking For Our Missing Heroes

THE ROLLING THUNDER impromptu patriotic motorcycle gang rolls into Washington D.C. every memorial Day weekend, and, strangely enough, its purpose is not to honor America's verifiably war dead, but rather to call attention to and honor the over eighty thousand service people who have simply vanished during the many and various United States' wars. With a little luck or divine intervention, they are safely ensconced and prospering in places like Canada, having gladly gotten out of the fray. More likely, regrettably, they were killed in action, and lax accounting overlooked them, which is, at the least, alarming. one's first impulse is to assume that the bikers are doing what the rest of us are: rmmembering and paying tribute to all the million and a half or so counted war dead. Their creativity is to be admired. What better reason for thousands of motorcycles to come roaring into teh nation's capitol, adding carbon based exhaust to the fetid air, turning the already overheated atmosphere into a murky, malignant soupy haze. Nearly all of the eighty thousand missing in action lost their way during Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, or perhaps somewhere in Latin America, where american imperialism is much less publicized. Since the U.S. lost nearly four hundred thousand dead in world War Two, we may still be wondering where some of those brave souls ended up. The following is a list of american wars for which no true justification can be found, other than expanionistic, imperialistic, capitalistic greed: The Mexican War (1846-1848). the Spanish-American War (1898), Viet Nam (1964-1975), Iraq (1991), Iraq(2003), Afghanistan(2001-to the present, ongoing). Korea was questionable; it was, after all, a civil war, into which it can be argued the United States and the United nations ought never to have injected themselves. No matter which war, or under what circumstances the missing were lost; they remain brave heroes, and the politicians who sent them to their doom remain war criminals.

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