We will no longer participate in selective mourning only America's war dead. We will mourn all victims of war, the millions of civilians, the hundreds of thousands of our designated enemies fallen in their motherlands, and then, having put others first, as in common humility, will we mourn the tens of thousands of our very own fellow citizens who sacrificed their lives for, or thinking it was for, the good of our nation.
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WE REMEMBER WAR VICTIMS OF ALL NATIONS! MOURN WAR ON MEMORIAL DAY!
Some
American veterans of wars call for a return to the healthy purpose for
Memorial Day, which in Columbus, Mississippi, April 25, 1866, was to
bind its town and the nation together in mourning the million and half
soldiers who died killing each other during our tragic Civil War. A day
for mourning the dead of both sides, civilian as well as military, in
national fellowship intended to put an end to hatred for the other
side, end lust for war to settle differences and see a United States of
America restored.
Americans, who want war stopped and no new
ones planned, can join veterans observing Memorial Day as it was
observed in a small southern town a century and a half ago. A day of
mourning one's own made stronger for remembering the suffering of
families of soldiers and citizens of the other side. A Memorial Day
that recognized the unity of all Humanity, a century and a half ago.
Back
then it was to cure a painful division in America. Today's Memorial Day
should be about curing a painful division in the World, by remembering
the other side's suffering. Presently, there is yet another world wide
civil war within Mankind. Human beings killing fellow human beings in
desperation.
Forbearance and forgiveness on Memorial Day will
lead to a search to understand what is causing the violence and anger,
this in turn, to condemning and outlawing war propaganda as a crime.
Many
veterans cannot forget being trained to kill and our having fallen in
love with the people we were killing. We, who have known the agony of
killing, ask for reconciliation politics instead of attempted final
solutions through never ending horrific homicidal violence, as Obama
calls for today.
We, who were taught to kill, call for
Memorial Day 2010 to be observed mourning the dead on both sides in all
America's wars. now it is the World that is needs binding together in
mourning.
We U.S. veterans, who fought for our country, more
often than not mistakenly, for disinformation, war propaganda and
corporate profit, will observe a space age Memorial Day 2010.
We
will no longer participate in selective mourning only America's war
dead. We will mourn all victims of war, the millions of civilians, the
hundreds of thousands of our designated enemies fallen in their
motherlands, and then, having put others first, as in common humility,
will we mourn the tens of thousands of our very own fellow citizens who
sacrificed their lives for, or thinking it was for, the good of our
nation.
Thus, we call for an end to hatred for the
soldiers of the other side who were taught to kill us just as we U.S.
veterans were taught to kill them even when they were defending against
our invasion! We call for an end to all divisive self-righteousness! We call for a replacing of
useless puffed up pride with happiness creating love and mutual
appreciation!
We
call to get real on Memorial Day! Denounce lies demonizing others and
misrepresenting America as angelic. Get to the bottom of who killed and
why? Who always promotes war and why? Don't trust our war justifying
corporate bought politicians! Don't trust their appointed generals!
Don't trust corporate conglomerate owned commercial media! Do all
this, and stop these wars for profit.
And enjoy a positive
Memorial Day holiday weekend that is honest about the past, and forward
looking to a world without war in the name of all war's millions of
victims!
Authors Website: http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com
Authors Bio:
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident Voice; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents; Minority Perspective, UK,and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 19 nations. Dissident Voice supports this website with link at the end of each issue of its newsletter.