Maybe unpopular but i agree. Broken clock, bla bla. I wonder how many of those dead soldiers actually needed to die and how many were just killed by pointless proxy and oil wars.
Not really. He might not have meant it that way, but i prefer people being alive to receive their awards.
Honoring soldiers (dead or alive) might have its place, but certainly civilian achievements are just better for everyone in general, usually more productive and dont involve having to kill people. Soldiers are literally just doing their jobs, that they chose to do and get paid for.
In the case of the US the things they do and the warcrimes they commit usually do not benefit civilian society and especially not the country that they served in.
Soldiers are literally just doing their jobs, that they chose to do and get paid for.
You do know that the military draft was a thing up until around 1970?
You remind of a anecdote. There was a famous writer who got out of Europe and made it America circa 1935. He then declared that he was a pacifist. Someone else pointed out that it's easy to be a pacifist when you have an ocean and the US Navy between you and Hitler.
An unfathomable number of international crimes has been commited by the US military since 1970 so that point is completely irrelevant.
Equating WW2 with the many financial/colonial wars of the last few decades is embarrassing. These have been entirely preventable wars and any US citizen should be outraged by the pointless killing of their parents, siblings and children. Yet their deaths are celebrated as "heroic" when in fact the lives of those people were thrown away just so that some rich assholes could buy more yachts. Deep down they know this, but to admit as much would ruin their little world view bubble of USA greatness.
I've protested pretty much every war the US has been involved in in my life time.
What annoys me about you is that you're acting like you're actually doing something important and meaningful by denying the dead and wounded the honors they've earned.
Talk about the fat cats all you want, but try to realize that it's only luck that kept you from being one of those soldiers.
I mean yeah arguing with strangers on the internet is kinda pointless and most of the time has no real world effect, but here we all are...
What im annoyed by is that it sometimes feels like people are proud of these deaths. Any person deserves respect and their death should be honored. But the reason for their death is something that should not be celebrated. Their cause of death is something bad not something good. Its not a hero thing its a victim thing. Soldiers are victims of their incapable leaders, unable to prevent them from having to go to war.