By Howard Zinn • The Progressive • May 2005
Another Memorial Day. Another war. Yes, let’s honor those who died in the nation’s many wars. But if we do not want to keep adding to the soldiers’ graves, let’s also ask why they died.
We know our political leaders will speak solemnly to the nation while the flags are unfurled and the bugles blow, and they will say, as they always do, “They gave their lives for their country.”
And that is supposed to satisfy the families of the dead, supposed to satisfy all of us whose children and grandchildren may be called upon to serve in future wars.
