Comments on: No Justice on Memorial Day

By: Bill K.

Bill K. — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:36:45 +0000

Memorial Day should be a day to remember the Millions of Victims of the US Military Industrial Complex.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:39:42 +0000

Always the claim of good intentions. Judge them by their deeds. How many apologies are ready in the wings for the bogus claim that “they really meant to do good by XXX”?

By: Tim R.

Tim R. — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:10:05 +0000

Yeah Lawrence, thats what all our soldiers do. They sign up and say ” I want to go and committ mass murder.” Is that really what you think of everyone who has ever served in our nation’s military? Shame on you. Your a disgrace.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:46:07 +0000

I’m with you, Gabe. I also wonder…what would a monument to unthinking, cruel, servile minions of the state look like? An empty heart cavity in a Frankenstein doll? A skull without a brain? A hammer driving a nail into the corpse of a 3rd-world victim? Oh, the possibilities.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:30:19 +0000

Yes lets all be docile follow the propaganda and worship the state together for one day. Submit to the moral authority, it is good to sacrifice lives so that Lockheed Martin and JP Morgan can make more money.

God Bless Henry Kissinger.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:56 +0000

I find it impossible to “honor” people who go to a faraway place to commit mass murder against poor people who never harmed or planned to harm us–2,000,000 in Vietnam; 567,000 Iraqi babies by 1996 from the sanctions and 1,000,000 since 2003 (and how many in between from the non-stop bombing by McCain imitators?). Let’s not forget the Philippines, hmmm. What kind of person would honor killers of innocent moms and dads and kids. I think of that little girl with the napalm burns –flash-fried by our heros. Do we honor Al Capone’s gang, which was much smaller and less dangerous by far?

By: richard vajs

richard vajs — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:53:03 +0000

Eric Garris asks:
“PS: Please tell me who on the site hates Bush more than bin Laden”
That would be me – I KNOW that Bush is guilty of all of thise deaths, but after all this time, I still have my doubts as to what part bin Laden played in 9-11. I can see the jackass, Bush, strutting around, I have no idea if bin Laden is alive or dead. I must shoulder my share of this country’s shame of its invasion/occupation of an innocent, weaker country, I had nothing to do with bin Laden’s actions (whatever the hell they were).
So, yes, Eric I hate Bush more because he is real and unfortuneately he represents me. Bin Laden is just some phantom to me.

By: R. Nelson

R. Nelson — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:35:51 +0000

And somehow you think that the Rolling Dunderheads, by licking Bush’s boots, are respecting the unfortunates pushed through the meatgrinder by generations of stupid, evil old men in power? I honor those men who fought because they truly thought, however ignorantly, that they were defending their country, not those who fight “to spread democracy” or “earn my way through college”. At least their hearts were right, even if their brains weren’t.

By: nasrudin

nasrudin — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:29:03 +0000

A reminder from Bill Quigley:

“The 1950 Joint Resolution of Congress which created Memorial Day says: ‘Requesting the President to issue a proclamation designating May 30, Memorial Day, as a day for a Nation-wide prayer for peace.’ (64 Stat.158).”

By: Eric Garris

Eric Garris — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:57:28 +0000

Tim:

Why does Bush get a free pass to push his politics on Memorial Day but everyone else has to refrain from their opinions? You are defining what is respect. I don’t have much respect for a man going to “pay tribute” to the men he ordered to their deaths to advance his political career.

PS: Please tell me who on the site hates Bush more than bin Laden.

By: Tim R.

Tim R. — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:51:34 +0000

I understand that the website is ANTI-war. I also understand that many people on here hate Bush more than Bin Laden. I get that part of it. But for heaven’s sake, its Memorial Day. Can’t we just pay our respects to the people who fought and died for this country? Maybe they died in the jungles of Vietnam in war that probably should not have been fought but should we not still honor their sacrifice? Or maybe they died at Gettysburg, or in some trench on the western front, or at Lexington and Concord, or at the beaches of Normandy. Don’t we owe them our respect? Let’s not have politics for just one day.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:03:37 +0000

“The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn’t want war. Yeah, there’s an arms race, but it’s Britain who’s leading it. So, why does no one admit this?

[approaching a war memorial]

That’s why. The dead. The body count. We don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault ’cause so many of our people died. And all the mourning’s veiled the truth. It’s not “lest we forget”, it’s “lest we remember”. That’s what all this is about – the memorials, the Cenotaph, the two minutes’ silence. Because there is no better way if forgetting something than by commemorating it.”

[The History Boys]