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Memorial Day as it could be.
Found this on Free Thought Blogs and it got me to thinking, particularly as I was a CO during the IndoChine war.
Not that I as lasted long working in a hospital - I left for England and didn't come back for ten years.
If you’ve ever been to Washington DC, you know we have a LOT of war memorials. We even have this day, this weekend, devoted to the honoring of war and warriors.
What we do NOT have in Washington DC is a memorial to individual conscience, or to protest. We do not have a national day to honor peace.
Amid the honoring of warriors past and present, I’d like to take a moment to honor all those who stood up and opposed the declaring and conducting of wars.
I would like to see, right on the National Mall next to all the death monuments, a monument to life, a Statue of Conscience and Civil Disobedience.
What we do NOT have in Washington DC is a memorial to individual conscience, or to protest. We do not have a national day to honor peace.
Amid the honoring of warriors past and present, I’d like to take a moment to honor all those who stood up and opposed the declaring and conducting of wars.
I would like to see, right on the National Mall next to all the death monuments, a monument to life, a Statue of Conscience and Civil Disobedience.
Halfway down the page.
