In WWll, Americans threw themselves on grenades to prevent their buddies from dying. Same thing is going on today, Americans are throwing themselves on IED&apos;s to prevent their buddies from dying.
How does that saying go? What greater love hath one for another that you&apos;ll lay down your life so another may live?
After reading these accounts of Americans willingly giving up their lives so that others may live, I have to ask, if I were to find myself in the same situation, what would I do? The honest answer is I don&apos;t know.
BTW, if anyone is interested, that higher ideal was abundantly displayed by the helicopter pilots in Vietnam. Many of them died trying to save others.
Helicopter pilots have to be officers, they weren&apos;t the ones who were drafted, it was the soldiers fighting on the ground who were drafted, so what do we owe to the memory of those pilots? After all, they willingly asked for death.
There&apos;s no conscription these days. Therefor those who (voluntarily) join the military should realize that they are (a) putting themselves in danger for the sake of the frequently immoral ends of the wealthiest & most powerful and (b) contributing to the deaths of people (both individuals & nations) who never attacked our country. So what do we owe to those who are brainwashed? I don&apos;t know.
My uncle was a rifle company captain in WWll, a spy in Korea, trained soldiers in The Cold War and trained men to serve as officers in Vietnam.
He said that any sensate human being who goes to war will be disturbed by it, and if you&apos;re not, there&apos;s something wrong with that individual.
The point is; being haunted by war and suffering through the side effects is not a disorder, it is human nature. So don&apos;t label people suffering from war as having a "disorder" they don&apos;t. Remember the term "shell shocked"?
This is one of the first things the country can do to help citizens suffering from wars for lies.
The people with the real "disorder syndrome" are the citizens who think sending the troops is gonna defeat ISIS or win in Afghanistan.
there is no morality in war-only consequences-
as many a philosopher has said-what you plant is what you harvest-we have been planting war for decades now and the state of our country-it&apos;s citizens, and the world we live in are being sacrificed on the alter of death--all for a few miserable dollars---that is the harvest
But no morals
In WWll, Americans threw themselves on grenades to prevent their buddies from dying. Same thing is going on today, Americans are throwing themselves on IED&apos;s to prevent their buddies from dying.
How does that saying go? What greater love hath one for another that you&apos;ll lay down your life so another may live?
After reading these accounts of Americans willingly giving up their lives so that others may live, I have to ask, if I were to find myself in the same situation, what would I do? The honest answer is I don&apos;t know.
BTW, if anyone is interested, that higher ideal was abundantly displayed by the helicopter pilots in Vietnam. Many of them died trying to save others.
Helicopter pilots have to be officers, they weren&apos;t the ones who were drafted, it was the soldiers fighting on the ground who were drafted, so what do we owe to the memory of those pilots? After all, they willingly asked for death.
There&apos;s no conscription these days. Therefor those who (voluntarily) join the military should realize that they are (a) putting themselves in danger for the sake of the frequently immoral ends of the wealthiest & most powerful and (b) contributing to the deaths of people (both individ
uals & nations) who never attacked our country. So what do we owe to those who are brainwashed? I don&apos;t know.
My uncle was a rifle company captain in WWll, a spy in Korea, trained soldiers in The Cold War and trained men to serve as officers in Vietnam.
He said that any sensate human being who goes to war will be disturbed by it, and if you&apos;re not, there&apos;s something wrong with that individual.
The point is; being haunted by war and suffering through the side effects is not a disorder, it is human nature. So don&apos;t label people suffering from war as having a "disorder" they don&apos;t. Remember the term "shell shocked"?
This is one of the first things the country can do to help citizens suffering from wars for lies.
The people with the real "disorder syndrome" are the citizens who think sending the troops is gonna defeat ISIS or win in Afghanistan.
there is no morality in war-only consequences-
as many a philosopher has said-what you plant is what you harvest-we have been planting war for decades now and the state of our country-it&apos;s citizens, and the world we live in are being sacrificed on the alter of death--all for a few miserable dollars---that is the harvest
But no morals