Memorial Day is not about sales and buy new a new matress, and it should not be about glorifying war and jingoistic national patriotism. We should remember why war is bad, and remember the dead who speak to us from their graves:
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,718
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,789
Cost of War in Iraq Afghanistan
$1,000,042,858,296
Falling Off the $1 Trillion Cliff
10 Things to Remember on Memorial Day
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Monday, May 31, 2010
MLK vs. War
Dr. Martin Luther King spoke against the Vietnam War and American imperialism and tied the war in Vietnam and war spending to the neglect of the poor in the United States.
"Silence is Betrayal"
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