Today is Veteran’s Day. In 1919 President Wilson proclaimed that November 11th of every year would become Armistice Day. It wasn’t until 1938 that the holiday would become a legally recognized holiday from an act that was passed by Congress of that year to include the observances of honor for American veterans of all wars and not just that of World War I and thereby renaming the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
Now, I do not support the Bush Administration’s war agenda in any way but I do support and honor those who are in our military. I may not agree on the issues that caused so many of our citizens to be overseas nor to be in a global war on terror but what I agree with and do not agree with does change the facts or the reality of the situation that our soldiers are living with on a day-to-day basis.
The soldiers out there in field right now, may not be cut of the same cloth as those that have gone before them because they are not fighting for what those who have gone before them have fought for but they are our fellow country men and women. They are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends. They have pledged their lives for this time period to being soldiers, to being the warriors out there in world in a situation that they did not have a choice in.
Together, we can bring the rest of our troops home and save the lives of innocent civilians in their homelands as well as our own people by ending the Bush Administration’s Wars and ensuring that no more wars are created.
Learn more, hear more and understand more at Iraq Veterans Against the War.