Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day? (Howard Zinn 1976)

[struggle4progress]

~snip~ There were the B52 pilots who refused to fly those last vicious raids of Nixon's and Kissinger's war. Have any of the great universities, so quick to give honorary degrees to God-knows-whom, thought to honor those men at this Commencement time, on this Memorial Day?

No politician who voted funds for war, no business contractor for the military, no general who ordered young men into battle, no FBI man who spied on anti-war activities, should be invited to public ceremonies on this sacred day. Let the dead of past wars he honored. Let those who live pledge themselves never to embark on mass slaughter again. ~snip~

Let us honor Martin Luther King, who refused the enticements of the White House, and the cautions of associates, and thundered against the war in Vietnam.

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren. ~snip~

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Society/MemorialDay_Zinn.html

[Monkeyman]

1. Every Fallen and wounded Trooper and those who said Sir No Sir

[EFerrari]

2. Howard Zinn is a gift. K&R

[bonito]

3. The man is truly a national treasure.