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1/ What made the leaders of WW2 so profound was that they viscerally knew the horrors of war. There was nothing about it that felt like a game with them. You get a sense of the depth of their grief that they had to send men to war.
2/ These words from FDR: "I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded . . . I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed . . . I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
3/ On the night before the D-Day invasion Eisenhower did what he often did: took a walk among the soldiers. He knew no matter whether he the invasion succeeded or failed, he was sending more men to their death in battle than had ever before died in a single military operation.
4/ He would say, "Are you scared, soldier?" And they would often say "Yes, Sir." Many of them put on war paint that night. Eisenhower would say to them "Just keep moving. That's the thing. Just keep moving." If you really think about those men today, it rips your heart to shreds.
Sorry to keep beating a dead horse but man, don't you remember Joe Biden in the run up to the Iraq War? As an antiwar activist I can't support him. I can't imagine anyone supporting him who was alive and conscious in the early 2000's. He is dangerous.pic.twitter.com/EjCYJFpHal
I ran myself; I put myself out there to articulate another way. I was passionately outspoken against the Iraq war and I campaigned on the idea of a Dept. of Peace. But now? Trump has us on a hair trigger away from war with Iran!
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
It’s called “ having a conscience” and not thinking about everything from the perspective of ego and self interests
On the other hand, young men were lining and signing up in droves to join the armed forces. Many COMMIT SUICIDE if they were declined for some reason. Nothing like what either of us are pointing out, however, applies to this unreal state of affairs.
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