Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
The warrior is the war
On November 13, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial turns 25. According to the Memorial Fund President Jan Scruggs, the black wall has “helped people separate the warrior from the war, and it has helped a nation to heal.”
How “healed” this nation might be is certainly open to debate. What should be patently evident is that separating “the warrior from the war” results in No Gun Ri, My Lai, Haditha, etc. Such disconnection also makes it taboo to criticize or question “our heroes.” (There are even many “anti-war” folks who vigorously defend the troops.) Even when faced with documented evidence of criminality, Americans will not equate the warrior with the war.
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