{"id":19310,"date":"2010-06-02T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T16:29:41","slug":"democratic-underground-mourns-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19310","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Underground mourns Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Non-Sense We Call Memorial Day” <\/a><\/p>\n

War veteran and Zen teacher Harvey Daiho Hilbert Roshi writes: <\/p>\n

On my mind is the non-sense we call Memorial Day, the slick shift in language calling every soldier and sailor a “hero,” and the deceitful and manipulative bended knees and lowered heads as we “recall” our lost ones for a moment or two between beers and sales. <\/p>\n

Real heroes are the quiet makers of peace; those who say no in the face of the charge to insanity, and those who use their heart\/mind to resolve a conflict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

gratuitous (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-01-10 11:00 PM
\nResponse to Original message
\n9. Destroy the heretic!
\n This is the Chosen People of the Promised Land of the High Church of Redemptive Violence. We teach our young from the cradle that violence is the noblest, holiest method of resolving conflict. Violence will drive out and redeem violence. Questioning or refraining from war denigrates every hero who ever donned the uniform. For heroes they are. They must be. Without qualification or exception. As the poet said, “Look at all we’ve won with the saber and the gun”! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-01-10 11:49 PM
\nResponse to Reply #10
\n13. They shouldn’t sign up in the first place.
\n Edited on Tue Jun-01-10 11:50 PM by Arugula Latte
\nIf nobody joined the military, they wouldn’t be able to wages these fucking bloody wars for corporate profit.<\/p>\n

When was the last time the U.S. military truly “defended” this country? I don’t recall any imminent invasions in the past several decades.<\/p>\n

Edited to say: Obviously this only applies since the draft has been abolished. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-02-10 12:09 AM
\nResponse to Reply #15
\n16. It’s ruining us.
\n The military budget is ludicrous. We’re turning into a third-rate nation (what are we, 44th on the list or something in child mortality? The horrible statistics go on and on …) because the military sucks up all the money that could be spent on making this country so much better than it is.<\/p>\n

I was exaggerating, but I do think we should slash the military down to a small fraction of its current size. The money suck and the mass murder of brown people done in our names are absolutely abhorrent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Must be my war like upbringing, but I would like to stab these idiots in the dick with an ice pick.<\/p>\n

RIP Bobby Beasley and Craig Cherry. Sorry I missed a Memorial Day post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Non-Sense We Call Memorial Day” War veteran and Zen teacher Harvey Daiho Hilbert Roshi writes: … Democratic Underground mourns Memorial Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}