A patriotic Christian brother who served in north Africa in the 80s said to me recently, “I don’t know that anything we did there was any good at all.”
Patriotism can be a good thing. Unthinking, uncritical, undiscerning patriotism is not. Many a person who has served in good faith has died needlessly in the service of this country. Those who served in good faith deserve honor. Those politicians and profiteers who in their greed sent men like so much cattle to be slaughtered in pointless wars will receive their just reward.
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