In Memoriam, 2018, by Robert Gore
On Memorial Day, America remembers and honors those who died while serving in the military. It is altogether fitting and proper to ask: for what did they die? Do the rationales offered by the military and government officials who decide when and how the US will go to war, and embraced by the public, particularly those who lose loved ones, stand up to scrutiny and analysis? Some will recoil, claiming it inappropriate on a day devoted to honoring the dead. However, it is because war is a matter of life and death, for members of the military and, inevitably, civilians, that its putative justifications be subject to the strictest tests of truth and the most probing of analyses.
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Time to strike against the real enemies of America.
listening to a Marine Corps drill instructor speak at Parris Island during 1969.
The drill instructor claimed we fought so our mamas and girlfriends would not be raped.
Me dino then wondered how in the world could any Vietnamese manage to come all the way over here to do that.
Of course, me dino kept my mouth shut to avoid being punched in the guts. The Full Metal Jacket flick was dead on about Parris Island abuses back then.
And I did not have to march off to fight people who wanted to rape my mama.
For me it was indentured servitude as a supply clerk in North Carolina until I was freed during 1971.
All in all, I got lucky.