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| Marine Reconnaissance troop on guard duty, Vietnam |
We salute our veterans, and we call out our veterans' enemies today, chickenhawks, who are at it again, crawling out from under rocks mocking virtues of our military forces — service, honor, guarding our freedom.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), always desperate to prove his manhood in his perverted method of chickenhawk acts, celebrates Donald Trump's killing, bringing "death" to the world, (Yahoo).
"[Donald] Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs, we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II," Graham noted to celebrate increased killing enacted by the current administration, (Yahoo).
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| Vietnam veteran Don Kosterman of Fitchburg, Wisconsin was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in May 2023. Veterans are honored each year in the Badger Honor Flight. Don was in-country, Vietnam, 1965-66. Don Kosterman is a man of honor. |
We need more war, more killing. This is how we honor our veterans and servicemen and women, Trump and Graham believe.
Our federal government now has the Department of War, a new undertaking, but a transformation in name only of the massive national security state erected by Democrats and Republicans.
War president; war footing; strutting egotism, permanent war, and a pathological inability to speak the truth—this is the government we have today to honor our veterans.
Sixty-four years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about war as an anti-democratic, corrupting domestic force in his Farewell Address (1961), as peace is deterred, and atrocity continues.
Doesn't have to be this way.
Concludes Eisenhower:
"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
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| Vietnam veteran Patrick Newberry of Fitchburg, Wisconsin was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in April 2023. The veterans were honored during the 46th Badger Honor Flight. Patrick was in-country. Vietnam 1967 (WMTV-Madison) Patrick Newberry is a man of honor. |
But our current president betrays the presidential oath of office, substituting indecent needs of the terror state of Israel, for example, for the needs of 1.2 million low-income veterans, 40-million other elderly and disabled, whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP benefits have been fanatically opposed by Trump and Graham.
The world is a free-fire zone for President Trump; and our active-duty forces are sometimes transformed into war criminals by their commander-in-chief.
Billions of dollars for Israel, and a perverse crusade to block SNAP for our veterans the weekend before this Veterans Day, with a late assist to Trump from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). This is the terrain today.
The national security state budget surpasses $1 trillion each year, viewing with suspicion those few seeking elected office and calling out the perils to our democracy of the security state that lives through secrecy and lies, with no accountability.
Marines like Graham Platner, oyster farmer, and Democratic Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026 fight back. "I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war," vows Platner.
Platner has drawn the enmity of Sen. Chuck Schumer and other liars in Congress for standing for freedom and truth.
Our country is a betrayal to the people who guard our freedom.
As Eisenhower warned:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.Veterans, thank you.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.
We as the American people should honor you by ensuring you have the country you served.
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Anyone ever see a veteran in the days back home from a Honor Flight? It's wonderful; veterans glow with an expression that appears a mixture of pride, solidarity, even elation.
I think we can match this glory, or at least come close enough, in the performance we demand from those in government.
I know we should try.
Look to independents who reject partisan blinders. Check out Army Green Beret veteran, Valhalla VFT, and other patriotic independents.
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