NaArnold Oliver
Ndezvipi muheck akaita Armistice Day kuva Veterans Day? Yakasimbiswa neCongress muna 1926 "kupfuurira runyararo kuburikidza nekuda kwakanaka uye kuwirirana pakati pemarudzi, (uye gare gare) zuva rakatsaurirwa kune chinokonzera rugare rwepasi," Armistice Day yakazivikanwa zvikuru kwemakore anenge makumi matatu. Sechikamu cheiyo, machechi akawanda akatarira mabhero avo paawa ye11th yezuva 11th yemwedzi we11th - awa mu1918 kuti zvighu zvinyarara paWestern Front panguva iyo 16 mamiriyoni akafira mukutya kweHondo Yenyika I .
Kuve usina kujeka pamusoro pazvo, muZuva reChristmas Armistice rakapambwa nechisimba cheAmerica congress uye rakanzizve Veterans Day. Nhasi vashomanana veAmerica vanonzwisisa chinangwa chepakutanga chezuva reArmistice, kana kuti kunyange kurangarira. Izwi rekutsvaka runyararo rwakange rucheneswa. Chimwe chakaipisisa pane zvose, Veterans Day yakagadzirirwa mune imwe nhepfenyuro yehuse-yenyika-yechitendero yehondo uye vashandi vakashinga vakashinga vanozvipa. Hatisati tine zuva renyika rekucherechedza kana kuratidza pamusoro pekune dzimwe nyika rugare.
Uye kujekeswa kwevarwi sevarwi kwakanaka chaizvo. Kana iwe uri mhare, uye wakatendeseka pamusoro payo, iwe uchabvuma kuti zvizhinji zvezvinoitika panguva yehondo zvinoratidzika kusingagumi, uye mahedheni chaiwo muhondo vashoma zvikuru uye ari kure.
Ndinofanira kukuudza kuti pandakanga ndiri muVietnam, ndakanga ndisiri gamba, uye handina kuona chimwe chechiito chekushinga mukati megore randakapedza ikoko, kutanga seSouth Army pachake uye seva sergeant. Hungu, paiva nehushingi muhondo yeVietnam. Pamativi ose maviri ehondo yacho pane mabasa anokosha ekuzvipira uye ushingi. Mapoka mubazi rangu akashamisika kuti mauto eNorth Vietnam anokwanisa kutsungirira sei kwemakore mukutarisana nekutyisa kweUnited States moto. Vashandi vezvokurapa veU.S. vakaita zviratidzo zvisingaiti zvekushinga kununura avo vakakuvara mumoto.
Asi iniwo ndakaona huwandu hwakawanda hwekuita kwakashata, zvimwe zvangu ndezvangu. Pakanga paine zviitiko zvekusaremekedza uye kushungurudzwa kwevanhu vechiVietnamese, uye nhamba huru yezvakaipa zvehondo zvakanyanya. Uyezve, mapoka ose aive, uye achiripo, mugove wavo wezvakaipa, con artists nematombo. Yakawanda yakaipa yevose vaiva mauto eUnited States nevatungamiri vehurumende vakaronga, vakarongedza, uye vakabatsirwa zvikuru kubva muhondo iyo yakadzivirirwa. Ndaifanira kunge ndakadzivisa hondo yacho nokukurumidza kubva mukati memasoja, sezvakaitwa nevamwe vakawanda.
Chokwadi chiri kutonhora ndechekuti kupindira kweUnited States uye basa reVietnam rakanga risina chokuita nekudzivirira rugare rweAmerica uye rusununguko. Pane zvakasiyana, Hondo yeVietnam yakarwiwa kuti idzivirire rusununguko rweVietnam, kwete kudzivirira; uye yakaparadzanisa zvikuru vanhu veAmerica.
Zvinosuruvarisa, Vietnam yakanga isiri muenzaniso wega wekusagadzikana kusina kururama. Hondo zhinji dzeAmerica - kusanganisira 1846 Mexican-America War, Hondo yeSpain-America mu1898, uye hondo yeIraq (urongwa urwu hahuna kukwana) - rwakabatwa pasi pezvinyengeri zvenhema kune nyika dzisina kutyisidzira United States. Zvakaoma kuona kuti, kana hondo isingaruramisiri, inogona kuva heroic kuti iite.
Asi kana huwandu hwehondo husingarwiswa nekuda kwezvikonzero zvakanaka, uye mashoma mashomanana ane heroic, pane here kune mauto chaiwo kunze uko kudzivirira rugare nerusununguko? Uye kana zvakadaro, ivo vanaani? Zvakanaka, kune vazhinji, kubva kuna Jesu kusvika iyezvino. Ndaisa Gandhi, Tolstoy, naDkt Martin Luther King, Jr. pane urongwa pamwe neVa Quaker vakawanda neMennonite. Uye usakanganwa General Smedley Butler, uyo akanyora kuti "Hondo iRacket".
MuVietnam, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson akadzivisa kuurayiwa kweMi Lai kubva pakuipa.
Mumwe mutambi wenhau aimbova mukuru wehurumende yeUnited States, Josh Stieber, akatumira shoko iri kune vanhu veIraq: "Mwoyo yedu yakaoma ichiri kutarisira tariro yokuti tinokwanisa kudzorera mukati medu nyika kubvuma kwehupenyu hwevanhu, kuti takadzidziswa kuramba." Takakudzwa kuti ave nekugona kukwanisa Josh mumusha medu sezvaaifamba achipfuura neUnited States pamusana wekuita runyararo apo achipa mari yaakange awana muuto sekusarudzwa kwebasa rake muhondo isina kururama.
Uye zvakadini neChristian Manning uyo akapedza makore manomwe mushure mejeri kwekutaura zvimwe chokwadi pamusoro pehondo yeIraq? Vane masimba avo ndeavo vanorwisana hondo nehondo, kazhinji pamutengo mukuru wevanhu. Uye ikozvino vaHarvard vandinosangana navo vanosanganisira vanyori vezvinyorwa uye vatungamiri vekutambudzwa, asi kwete ruzha rwekuridzira runyararo. Go Figure.
Nokuti mhirizhonga yave iripo kwenguva yakareba zvakadaro, zvichibva kubvira Gilgamesh yakasvika nehomwe yake yekudzivirira mu Sumeria ichienderera makore 5,000 apfuura, vanhu vanopikisa kuti ichagara iri nesu.
Asi vazhinji vakafunga zvakare kuti uranda uye kudzorwa kwevakadzi kwaizogara nekusingaperi, uye vari kuratidzwa zvisiri izvo. Isu tinonzwisisa kuti kunyangwe chiuto chisinga nyangarika nehusiku humwe, chinonyangarika chinofanirwa kana tichizodzivirira hupfumi pamwe nehunhu kuparara - tisingatauri kutsakatika kwemarudzi edu.
Sezvo Hondo Yenyika Yenyika Yese WT Sherman yakati kuWest Point, "Ndinoreurura pasina kunyadziswa kuti ndakaneta uye ndinorwara nehondo." Tinewe, bro.
Gore rino November 11th, Veterans For Peace vachadzorera tsika dzekutanga dzeArististice Day. Vabatane navo uye regai mabheji aya ataure.
Arnold "Enda" Oliver anonyora PeaceVoice uye ndiye Purofesa Emeritus wePolitiki yeScience paHeidelberg University muTiffin, Ohio. Mhare yeVietnam, iye ndeyeVeterans For Peace, uye anogona kusvika pa soliver@heidelberg.edu.
