The praise for veterans is a calculated attempt on the part of the ruling class to beat back the incredible amount of anti-militarism that swept the US as a result of the revulsions felt by so many ordinary citizens about the atrocities the US military committed in Vietnam and the testimony of veterans themselves as to what they witnessed (and in some cases committed themselves) during that war.
The intellectual keepers of orthodoxy in the US wanted to make sure that militarism would NOT be shunned by the general population --- that was why there was such a big deal made about the "victory" in the first Gulf War --- and the tremendous effort to suggest that veterans were treated with great disrespect when they came back from Vietnam -- there is a whole large scale false meme about citizens SPITTING on vets when they came back from Vietnam --- a "story" that has been debunked over and over again but probably has totally penetrated the national consciousness. > > > > > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1231): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1231 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76664217/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
