Title: A Message to the Military Source:
You Tube URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfcDGIvTSk Published:Aug 24, 2014 Author:Mark Passio Post Date:2015-08-16 11:38:21 by Southern Style Keywords:None Views:351 Comments:28
Double Medal of Honor Recipient and USMC Major General Smedley Butler's revelation on war ..
War is a Racket by Smedley Butler is a famous speech denouncing the military industrial complex. This speech by two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient exposes war profits that benefit few at the expense of many. Throughout his distinguished career in the Marines, Smedley Darlington Butler demonstrated that true patriotism does not mean blind allegiance to government policies with which one does not agree. To Hell with war.
In the lifetime of this country, it has always been those at the bottom of the social ladder that have done the bleeding and dying.
Andrew Mellon wrote this, I keep it handy as it reminds me of the attitude of so many Americans...
Perhaps it speaks for some here.
"""Morgan had escaped military service in the Civil War by paying $300 to a substitute. So did John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Philip Armour, Jay Gould, and James Mellon. Mellon's father had written to him that "a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable." ""
Of all the forums I've been part of I'd think we on 4um would recognize that our government is an Israeli owned and occupied territory. It is this foreign entity who orders mostly Christian men to fight in wars. To condemn the men while ignoring the Jew is to miss the forest for the trees.
The Jew was called Field Marshall Malcowicz. As soon as he could be gotten rid of, he was gone.
My last MIA friend was finally declared KIA two years ago. Shot down on his first trip over North Korea.
His parents received $10,000 for the life of their son.
He like the rest of us bear the guilt that the honest tax payers at home had to pays us.
This month I am sending my daughter to Holland, to the cemetery where my brother is memorialized , along with nearly a thousand other names of the UNKNOWN that lost their lives.
It grieves me to think that people can attach guilt to such.
The guilt is to the fomenters of war, no one else.
The guilt is for any principled, intelligent man of good moral character that forsakes them and "Just follows orders". funny how that excuse only holds up for the "winners". The guilt comes out in most in some way.