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Patriotic Fanaticism

Perhaps, it is in the most unlikely hours and places such as the so temporary quieting down of the guns, the stench of blood, of death, the agony of the wounded, the dying, and the final silence of the slain in this blood-soaked battlefield that you may see a night rainbow descend to pay homage to the sullied soil, and it shall belatedly dawn on you that, after all, so much of what is hazy, stupid or hidden about peace, about war, about patriotic fanaticism is, as you lay there dying, just absurd !

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Date: 3/8/2009 3:21:00 PM
I hear you. I agree. Century after century every generation manages to convince the young men & woman hat it's noble to fight in foriegn wars. Of course the educated wealthy have never been the ones on the fronts, thier fortunes are what's on the line not their lives. There was a whole generation of us boomers raised on "Hell no I won't go." I wish they'd bring back the concept. Light & Love
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Date: 8/4/2019 10:56:00 AM
Thanks, Debbie.
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Date: 8/4/2019 10:56:00 AM
Thanks, Debbie.

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