Veterans’ Day

November 11, 2008 by  

Thank you, Veterans.

Thank you to all those who have lost lives, limbs, loved ones, and innocence in service to our country. Some of you are gone. Some are old and creaky, years away from the sharpness of battle. Others of you are living this very moment through unimaginable violence and darkness. Some of you are veterans of “popular” wars, some of controversial wars. But you all deserve thanks. What you have given to this nation is generous beyond measure.

And for the rest of us, those who have never seen up close war in all its power, here’s a place to begin to explore our relationship (as humans) to this thing we do over and over:  War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges.

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