At the Boston Veterans Day parade, November 11, 2014.
An Excerpt from Peace & Planet News, a Publication of the New York City VFP chapter:
This piece is an excerpt, adapted from Ann Jones's book They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars – the Untold Story.
An older army officer calls me over... “I've been in the Army 26 years”, he says, “and I can tell you it's a con”.
He has been an adviser to the chief counterterrorism officer in Iraq. He doesn't think much of military bosses or politicians or Americans in general who send the lowliest 1% to fight wars that make the other one percent, on the high end, “monu-fuckin’-mentally rich”.
“ War is absurd”, he says. “Boys don't know any better. But for a grown man to be trapped in stupid wars – it's embarrassing, it's humiliating, it's absurd”.
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