"Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren." -- Howard Zinn
all guns should be destroyed..
ReplyDeleteI worry, more than ever, that it will simply become a ritual notation of "other people's sons dying" as the percentage of Americans in the US military becomes ever more tiny, and ever more from a core of "military tradition" at least partially based on economic hardship in five or six mostly impoverished states.
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