This Memorial Day Toon is old, but still very much worth looking at again...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. K&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you, my dear Gidney N Cloyd...so much. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

3. K&R...

it is hard to believe that this old cartoon is still relevant.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. It's not that old! Just from a year ago...

Owen!

[awoke_in_2003]

5. I know...

but it shouldn't have been relevent then, either

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Oh, I agree absolutely!

Unfortunately, I think it will be relevant for a long time now...

[SunSeeker]

6. Bring them home and take care of them.

Their care should not be left to bake sales and the occasional celebrity's donation.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/27/us/amputee-veterans-come-home/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Frank Siller, left, and Gary Sinise, center, announce a concert to raise money for quadruple amputee vet Todd Nicely.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Oh, GOD, yes, my dear SunSeeker! n/t

[TBF]

7. My favorite thread of the day. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Aw, thank you, my dear TBF...

[pinboy3niner]

11. Another K&R from this old Vietnam combat Infantry vet

Knowing--too intimately--the horrors of war, it really hurts to see what is happening not only to our own and allied troops, but to the civilians caught up in these wars, as well.

Bring them home, and bring them home NOW!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Your words carry much weight with me......

Thank you for them.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Better yet, don't send them in the first place.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Oh, of course! But that will never happen......we have a standing army and they want war.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Yep. It's "use it or lose it". The second "it" being the blood money being made by the bosses.

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?" Joan Baez

[pinboy3niner]

16. More from Joan (and the Irish)...

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Johnny I hardly Knew Ye

While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy
A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye
A doleful damsel I heard cry,
Johnny I hardly knew ye.

With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and drums and guns
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild
When my heart you so beguiled
Why did ye run from me and the child
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went for to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home
All from the island of Sulloon
So low in flesh, so high in bone
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg
Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg
Ye'll have to put with a bowl out to beg
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again
But they never will take our sons again
No they never will take our sons again
Johnny I'm swearing to ye.

[malaise]

17. That simple

[xtraxritical]

18. Stop enlisiting.