To Those In The Usa

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This is one of the only holidays I celebrate. We never go anywhere, but we make food, drink, smoke, and remember. It's a significant day for my fella and several other people in my daily life. I'm lucky enough to not have lost them when they served. They weren't so lucky, they do know people who are now gone after serving in the military.

It's shameful that so many veterans who sacrificed their time, health and mental wellness are on the streets Right Now.

This memorial day, I'm also thinking of the health care and other essential workers who have lost their lives during the pandemic, because they knowingly exposed themselves while serving/treating the public. ❤️
 

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Thank you for this. As a someone who served in the Persian Gulf I lost two good friends as a result, one from direct action, another years later from suicide due to Gulf War Syndrome though the government denied it to the end. In addition to two others I knew who stayed in and eventually went to Iraq after 9/11 where they died.

It is them I think about every Memorial Day as well as the Vietnam Vets I've known and worked with over the years, many of whom were tossed aside once they got back and continued to suffer the mental effects years later.

It's too easy for those making the decisions to go to war to not worry about the care those asked to sacrifice receive or not afterwards for it's never their ass on the line.