A Thing I Tweeted That I Want to Remember

[the_gneech]

re: Veterans Day, my dad served in the South Pacific in WWII. He hated everything about it and would not willingly talk about it. He was strongly anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-imperialist the rest of his life. The conflation of “military” with “patriotism” was something that particularly irritated him, although in his usual fashion he would just mutter and give sullen looks about it.

I think it’s important that in recognizing the service of veterans, we also recognize that America has a strange, almost cult-like fascination with violence that we need to address. Our video games and movies et al. are created to breed violent, competitive young males, so they can be pointed across the sea like attack dogs. The current flareup of fascism is directly related to this.

If WWII, often hailed as the last “morally justified war” could do so much damage to my dad, I can only imagine what the neverending war since then has done to countless Americans and the world.

I love my dad. In his memory, I do what I can to move us to a better way of life.

Anyway. Just a thought I had.

-The Gneech