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26 May 2014. A writes:

I was curious to know why you included pictures of injured/dead children in with pictures of injured soldiers, grieving wives and family at grave sites, etc? I understand that the injured children are a reality of the collateral damage done, but is it you believe that our soldiers are out there purposefully targeting children and innocent families? Response.

26 May 2014

Memorial Day 2014

The purpose is to memorialize all the victims of war: servicemembers killed and maimed, families, innocent bystanders, taxpayers who are extorted to fund armaments at the expense of greater needs, the kidnapped of mercenaries who emulate national warmakers.

Sanitized memorials are cruelly deceptive by institutionalizing, excusing even celebrating, sacrifice, suffering and death without recourse to support means to avoid pain, grief and desparation.

Those who give their lives, and those damaged but still alive, should not be diminished by shallow commeration which mocks reality.

"Reality of collateral damage" is deeply offensive for it exculpts those responsible among warmakers and gullible citizenry. Much of the orchestrated memorialization does that as well by concealing the horrors of warfare.

I'm a vet who prefers to honor all victims with the truth of what was done to them by liars, cowards and profiteers.