NaCamillo Mac Bica, September 30, 2018
From Nharo Dzose
Kutevera Hondo Yenyika Yekutanga, kusvika panguva iyoyo hondo yakadeura ropa nekuparadza kwazvo munhoroondo yevanhu, mazhinji emarudzi anorwira kurwa akagadzirisa, kwechinguva, kuti kuparadzwa kwakadai uye kurasikirwa kwehupenyu hakufanirwe kuitika zvakare. MuUnited States, musi waJune 4, 1926, Congress yakapa chisungo chakafanana chakagadza Mbudzi 11th, iro zuva muna 1918 pakamiswa kurwa, seZuva reArmistice, zororo repamutemo, chinangwa nechinangwa chazvo kwaive "kurangarira nekutenda nemunamato uye kurovedza kunoitirwa kupfuudzira runyararo kuburikidza nechido chakanaka uye kunzwisisana pakati penyika."
Maererano nechigadziro ichi, Mutungamiri Calvin Coolidge akabudisa a Proclamation musi waNovember 3rd 1926, "kukoka vanhu veUnited States kuti vacherechedze zuva iri muzvikoro nemachechi kana dzimwe nzvimbo, nemhemberero dzakakodzera dzinoratidza kuonga kwedu runyararo uye chishuwo chedu chekuenderera mberi kwehukama hwehukama nevamwe vanhu vese."
Zvinosuruvarisa, pasinei nekudanwa kwayo se "hondo yekugumisa hondo dzose," uye chinangwa cheArmedistice Day kuti iite November 11th zuva rekupemberera runyararo, iko kutsunga kwenyika kuve nechokwadi chekuti "kuda kwakanaka uye kunzwisisana pakati penyika" zvinokunda, nekukurumidza zvakakanganiswa. Kutevera imwezve zvakaenzana "hondo inoparadza, inodya mari, uye inosvika kure," Hondo Yenyika Yechipiri, uye "chiito chemapurisa" muKorea, Mutungamiri Dwight D. Eisenhower vakaburitsa Chiziviso chekuti akachinja mazita yaNovember 11th kubva kuArmistice Zuva kuenda kuVeterans Day.
"Ini, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mutungamiri weUnited States of America, itai kuti vanhu vedu vese vagone kuchengeta China, November 11, 1954, seVeterans Day. Pazuva iro ngatimboyeukei zvakadzama zvibayiro zvevose avo vakarwa zvakasimba, pamakungwa, mumhepo, uye kune dzimwe nyika, kuchengetedza nhaka yedu yerusununguko, uye regai tizvidzokere pabasa rekusimudzira rugare rusingagumi saka basa ravo haringave risina maturo. "
Kunyangwe vamwe vachiramba vachibvunza danho raEisenhower rekuchinja zita, pakuwongorora, kurudziro yake uye kufunga kwake zvinoonekwa. Kunyangwe aive kure nekuve murwiri, seMukuru weVakuru veAllied Expeditionary Force munguva yeHondo Yenyika II, aiziva uye aivenga kuparadzwa nekurasikirwa nenjodzi kwehupenyu kunosanganisira hondo. Chiziviso chaEisenhower, ndingati, chiratidzo chekuora mwoyo kwake nekushushikana nekutadza kwemarudzi kutevedzera zuva reArmistice Day rekudzivirira hondo uye kutsvaga dzimwe nzira dzekugadzirisa kusawirirana. Mukushandura zita, Eisenhower akatarisira kuyeuchidza America nezvekutyisa kwehondo uye kusava nematuro, zvibayiro zveavo vakamurwira, uye kuda kwekusimbisa kuzvipira kurunyararo rusingaperi. Kunyangwe zita rakachinjwa, chivimbiso chekusimudzira hukama hwehukama pakati penyika dzese nevanhu vese venyika chakaramba chakangofanana.
Kururama kwekuongorora kwangu kunopupurirwa naEisenhower Farewell Address kune Nation. Mune ino nhoroondo yekutaura, akanyatso kunyevera nezvekutyisidzira kunounzwa ne Military Industrial Complex uye kukoshesa kwayo kuita zvehondo uye hondo dzisingaperi dzebatsiro. Uye zvakare, akasimbisazve chikumbiro chekuti vagarisane murunyararo chaakasimbisa muVeteran's Day Proclamation. "Tinofanira kudzidza kunyora musiyano kwete nemaoko," akatipa zano, "asi nenjere uye nechinangwa chakanaka." Uye nepfungwa yekukurumidzira kukuru, akayambira kuti "Chete vagari vakangwarira uye vane ruzivo vanogona kumanikidza kukodzera kwakakodzera kwemaindasitiri makuru nemauto edziviriro nemaitiro edu erunyararo uye zvinangwa."
Nehurombo, sezvazvaive zvakaitika neArmistice Day, Eisenhower's Veterans Day Proclamation uye Farewell Address haina kunzwikwa. Kubva paakasiya hofisi, United States inochengetedza dzinenge mazana masere emasoja munyika dzinopfuura makumi manomwe nenharaunda kunze kwenyika; inoshandisa $ 716 biliyoni paDziviriro, anopfuura nyika nomwe dzinotevera dzakabatanidzwa kusanganisira Russia, China, United Kingdom neSaudi Arabia; rava iro mutengesi mukuru wesimba, $ 9.9 Bhiriyoni; uye ave inobatanidzwa muhondo muVietnam, Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Lebanon, Granada, Kosovo, Bosnia neHerzegovina, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, neSiria.
Zvinosuruvarisa, kwete chete kunyeverwa kweEisenhower kusina kufuratirwa, asi kushandura kugadzirwa kweArmedistice Day kuVeterans Day, kwakapa varwi nevaridzi vanobatsira varwi nzira uye mukana, kwete "kuzviratidza isu kumabasa ekusimudzira rugare rusingagumi" sezvazvakanga zvakaita pakutanga kutangwa muChangamidzo yake, asi kupemberera uye kukurudzira mhirizhonga uye hondo, kugadzira uye kupfuurira mhemberero dzaro dzekuremekedzwa uye vanokudzwa, dzisingarevi nhengo dzemauto uye varwi vehondo semhare, uye kukurudzira kuverengwa kwechirongwa chekudya zvehondo munguva yemberi yekuwana pfuma. Nokudaro, ndinotsigira kudzorerazve November 11th kusvika pakugadzwa kwayo kwepakutanga uye kugutsikana zvakare chinangwa chepakutanga. Tinofanira "Kudzosera Zuva reArmedistice."
Handiiti izvi zvisizvo, sezvo ini ndiri muhondo yeHondo yeVietnam uye munhu ane hanya. Uchapupu hwekuda kwangu nyika, rudo rwenyika, hunoratidzirwa kwete nebasa rangu remauto, zvisinei, asi kuburikidza nekubvuma kwangu mutoro kurarama hupenyu hwangu, nekuvimbisa kuti avo vakapiwa hutungamiri hwenyika yangu vanogara zvavo uye vanotonga, maererano mutemo wemutemo nemitemo.
Semhare muhondo, ini handizotsauswa nekushungurudzwa zvakare nevarwi vehondo uye vanobatsira muhondo. Semunhu anoda nyika, ndichaisa rudo rwangu rwenyika pamberi pekubvuma kwenhema kwekuremekedza nekutenda nebasa rangu. Sezvo isu tichipemberera zanath Chirangaridzo chekumiswa kwemhirizhonga mu "hondo yekupedza hondo dzese," ndichaedza kuona kuti iyo America yandinoda yakasarudzika, sekutaurwa kwazvo, asi kwete kwesimba rayo remauto kana kuda kuishandisa kutyisidzira, kuuraya, kushandisa, kana kukunda dzimwe nyika nevanhu kuitira zvematongerwo enyika, zvematongerwo enyika, kana zvemari. Asi, semhare uye munhu anofarira nyika, ndinonzwisisa kuti hukuru hweAmerica hunoenderana nehuchenjeri hwayo, shiviriro, kunzwira tsitsi, uye nekugadzirisa kugadzirisa kusawirirana nekusawirirana zvine musoro, zvakaenzana, uye zvisina mhirizhonga. Aya maAmerican tsika dzandinozvirumbidza nadzo, uye ndichifunga zvisirizvo kuti ndanga ndichidzivirira muVietnam, hazvisi zvekunyepedzera kwesimba uye purofiti, asi nhungamiro yehunhu hunogarira kugara zvakanaka kwerudzi urwu, pasi, neZVO zvese vagari.
Avo vedu vanoziva hondo vanomanikidzwa kushanda kuti vave norugare. Hapana nzira iri nani, inobatsira kune yekubvuma uye kukudza zvibayiro zvevavengi uye kuratidza rudo rweAmerica pane "kupfuurira runyararo kuburikidza nekuda kwakanaka nekuwirirana pakati pemarudzi." Ngatitangei neChitsvaidzo cheArisistice Day.
