Veterans Day Haisi yeVeterans

NaDavid Swanson, ye teleSUR

John Ketwig akanyoreswa kuUS Army muna 1966 uye akatumirwa kuVietnam kwegore. Ndakagara naye pasi svondo rino tichitaura nezvazvo.

"Kuverenga kwangu pamusoro pechinhu chose," akadaro, "kana ukataura nevakomana vakamboenda kuIraq neAfghanistan uye ukatarisa zvakaitika chaizvo muVietnam, unomhanya mune yandinodaidza nzira yekuAmerica yekurwa hondo. Mukomana wechidiki anoenda kushumiro aine pfungwa yekuti uchabatsira vanhu veVietnamese kana veAfghan kana vekuIraq. Unoburuka mundege nebhazi, uye chinhu chokutanga chaunoona iwaya mesh mumafafitera kuitira kuti magirinedhi asapinde. Unobva wangomhanyira muMGR (mere gook rule). Vanhu havaverengwi. Vaurayei vose, imbwa ngadziparadze. Haupo pakubatsira varombo. Hauna chokwadi chekuti wavingei, asi hazvisi izvo. "

Ketwig akataura nezve veterans vanodzoka kubva kuIraq vakamhanyisa vana nerori, vachitevera mirairo kuti vasamire nekutya maIED (zvakagadziridzwa zvishandiso zvinoputika). “Nokukurumidza kana kuti gare gare,” akadaro, “uchava nenguva yokurega, uye uchatanga kusava nechokwadi nezvauri kuita ikoko.”

Ketwig haana kutarisisa kutaura kana kuratidzira paakadzoka kubva kuVietnam. Akaramba akanyarara kweanenge makore gumi. Ipapo nguva yakasvika, uye pakati pezvimwe zvinhu, akabudisa nhoroondo ine simba yezvakaitika zvake inonzi Uye Mvura Yakaoma Yakanaya: Nyaya Yechokwadi yeGI yeHondo muVietnam. "Ndakanga ndaona mabhegi emitumbi," akanyora kudaro, "uye mabhokisi akaturikidzwa kunge cordwood, ndakaona vakomana veAmerica vakarembera vasina upenyu pawaya ine minzwa, vachipfachukira kumativi emarori emarara, vachizvuzvurudza seri kweAPC semarata kuseri kwebumper yepati yemuchato. Ndakanga ndaona ropa romurume asina makumbo richidonha pasi pemubhedha kuchipatara uye nemaziso aipengereka emwana aiva nembama.”

Mauto aKetwig, aigara mumatende akazara makonzo akakomberedzwa nemadhaka uye kuputika, anenge pasi rose akaona pasina chikonzero chezvavaiita uye vaida kudzokera kumba nekukurumidza. "FTA" (f- Mauto) yakange yakanamirwa pamidziyo kwese-kwese, uye kutsemuka (mauto anouraya mapurisa) kwaipararira.

Vagadziri vemitemo ine air-conditioned kumashure muWashington, DC, vakawana hondo yacho isinganyanyi kushungurudza kana kusada, asi neimwe nzira inonakidza. Maererano nevanyori vezvakaitika kare vePentagon, naJune 26, 1966, "zano rakapera," yeVietnam, "uye gakava kubva ipapo zvichienda mberi rakanga riri pamusoro pokuti isimba rakawanda sei uye kuti mugumo upi." Nechinangwa chei? Mubvunzo wakanaka. Ichi chaiva gakava remukati iyo yaifunga kuti hondo yaizoenda mberi uye yakatsvaga kugadzirisa chikonzero nei. Kutora chikonzero chekuudza veruzhinji raive danho rakasiyana kupfuura iro. Muna Kurume, 1965, memo yakaitwa neMubatsiri Secretary we "Defense" John McNaughton akange atogumisa kuti 70% yekukurudzira kweUS kuseri kwehondo "kudzivisa kukundwa kunonyadzisa kweUS."

Zvakaoma kutaura kuti ndezvipi zvisina musoro, nyika yeavo vari kurwa hondo, kana kufunga kweavo vanogadzira nekurebesa hondo. Mutungamiri Bush Mukuru anoti akanga afinhwa zvikuru pashure pokupedza Hondo yeGulf zvokuti akafunga kurega. Mutungamiri Franklin Roosevelt vakatsanangurwa nemutungamiri weAustralia segodo naWinston Churchill kusvika paPearl Harbor. Mutungamiri Kennedy akaudza Gore Vidal kuti pasina US Civil War, Mutungamiri Lincoln angadai ari rimwe gweta rechitima. Munyori wehupenyu hwaGeorge W. Bush, uye maonero aBush pachake paruzhinji mugakava rekutanga, anojekesa kuti aida hondo, kwete chete pamberi pe9 / 11, asi asati asarudzwa kuWhite House neDare Repamusorosoro. Teddy Roosevelt akapfupikisa mweya wemutungamiri wenyika, mweya weavo vanoshandira Zuva reVeterans zvechokwadi, paakati, "Ndinofanira kugamuchira chero hondo, nekuti ndinofunga nyika ino inoda imwe."

Kutevera Hondo yeKorea, hurumende yeUS yakashandura Zuva reArmistice, richiri kuzivikanwa seZuva Rekurangarira mune dzimwe nyika, kuita Zuva reVeterans, uye rakashanduka kubva pazuva kukurudzira kupera kwehondo kuita zuva rekukudza kutora chikamu muhondo. "Pakutanga raive zuva rekupemberera runyararo," anodaro Ketwig. “Izvozvo hazvichisina. Kurwiswa kwemauto eAmerica ndosaka ndakatsamwa uye ndine shungu. " Ketwig anoti hasha dzake dziri kukura, kwete kudzikira.

Mubhuku rake, Ketwig akadzidzira kuti kubvunzurudzwa kwebasa kwaizofamba sei kana abuda muHondo: “Ehe, changamire, tinogona kukunda muhondo. Vanhu veVietnam havasi kurwira pfungwa kana pfungwa dzezvematongerwo enyika; vari kurwira zvokudya, kuti vararame. Kana tikaisa ese aya mabhomba nemupunga, nechingwa, nembeu, nemidziyo yekudyara, uye tikapenda 'Kubva kushamwari dzako muUnited States' pane imwe neimwe, ivo vanotendeukira kwatiri. VeViet Cong havakwanise kuenderana nazvo. "

Uyewo ISIS haigoni.

Asi mutungamiri wenyika, VaBarack Obama, vane zvimwe zvavanokoshesa. Akazviita vanozvikudza kuti iye, kubva kuhofisi yake yaakagadzwa, “anonyatsogona kuuraya vanhu.” Achangobva kutumira "machipangamazano" makumi mashanu kuSyria, sezvakaita Mutungamiri Eisenhower kuVietnam.

Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson akabvunzwa svondo rino naCongresswoman Karen Bass kuti: “Ndeipi basa renhengo dzemauto makumi mashanu ari kuendeswa kuSyria? Uye basa iri richatungamira mukubatanidzwa kukuru kweUS?"

Patterson akapindura kuti: “Mhinduro chaiyoiyo inokamurwa.”

* Cherechedza: Pandakanzwa Ketwig achiti "imbwa" ndikafunga kuti aireva izvozvo, anondiudza kuti akataura uye aireva "Mwari" wechinyakare.