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It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too (MASSIVE HURL!)
vox.com ^
| May 25, 2015
| Dylan Matthews
Posted on 05/27/2015 7:04:49 PM PDT by mkleesma
Memorial Day and Veterans Day often get equated, but there is an essential distinction between the two. Veterans Day honors all who have served the American military in wars. Memorial Day honors those who've perished. It's an annual reminder that wars have grave human costs, which must be both recognized and minimized.
Those costs are not inevitable. We ought to also set aside time to remember those throughout American history who have tried hardest to reduce them, to prevent unnecessary loss of life both American and foreign: war resisters.
War resistors can be heroes....
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dailykos; dylanmatthews; markosmoulitsas; memorialday; traitors; veteransday; vox
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I think less of you, because of that post. I'd have thought such stupidity was beneath you.
I associate that "joke" with nasty small-souled pusillanimous faggots like the author of the original posted article.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:22:38 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: mkleesma
The way to end wars is to win them. Decisively.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:28:35 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
To: mkleesma
I guess they want to make Bowe Bergdahl a national hero.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:28:40 PM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(If you want peace, prepare for war.)
To: mkleesma
Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:29:03 PM PDT
by
BBell
(Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom)
To: a fool in paradise
Maybe now, but I was writing about that Russian guy who didn’t launch.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:31:35 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: mkleesma
There is already holiday for those people...Lenin’s birthday (aka Earth Day).
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:33:53 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: mkleesma
We just had the holiday for those who tried to stop wars.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:36:12 PM PDT
by
right way right
(Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
To: mkleesma
I can’t decide between Capitulation Day, Surrender Day or Pansy Day.
National Pansy Day has a ring to it though...
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:39:51 PM PDT
by
JJ_Folderol
(Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
To: mkleesma
The people who fight wars against tyrants and evil regimes are the ones trying to stop war. You win the war, the war stops.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:45:21 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: mkleesma
Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.”
Corinthians 14:33New International Version (NIV)
33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peaceas in all the congregations of the Lords people.
The only way to peace has been rejected by many of those shout the loudest for peace.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:46:25 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
("YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!")
To: mkleesma
- U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
- U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
- Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
And why wouldnt the über-leftists at Vox not want to achieve the
goals of communists?
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:47:27 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: mkleesma
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:48:56 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The original of this shopworn chestnut came from an article in Playboy Magazine back in the late 60s/ early 70's titled "Military Intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music."
It was popular among pimple faced New Left imbeciles who thought they could cover their porn habit by reciting a stupid title, or its juvenile derivatives. That's the company you're in, dredging it up at this late date. Just so you know.
To: mkleesma
Oh, I can’t wait for code pink day.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:49:20 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: mkleesma
I’m all for it because the greatest peacemakers in the history of the world have been the American GI’s. Wherever they have gone, peace has followed, with exception of Vietnam and Obama years when politics trumped the military.
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posted on
05/27/2015 7:54:13 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Can’t look at the truth or falsity of the assertion can we?
We must smear by association must we?
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posted on
05/27/2015 8:01:06 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: mkleesma
I totally agree that we should have a national holiday for someone who stopped a war.
That’s why I think August 6 should be a holiday in honor of Adam Baum.
To: JJ_Folderol
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posted on
05/27/2015 8:51:34 PM PDT
by
conservativeimage
(Own your challenges without blaming others for them. Bide your time and hold out hope.)
To: mkleesma
I think Neville Chamberlain Day has already been grabbed by the Brits. Maybe we could celebrate obama’s Noel Piece Pries with Obama Day.
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posted on
05/27/2015 9:04:17 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: mkleesma
It is beyond annoying that there is no provision for comments on that left wing garbage dump.
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posted on
05/27/2015 9:11:17 PM PDT
by
allblues
(God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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