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Occupy the Home Front: Why Veterans Are Deploying With the 99 Percent | The Nation


Unfortunately, World War I was not the “war to end all wars.” American soldiers continue to be thrust into unnecessary conflicts, fighting and dying in recent years in the undeclared wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The United States has not learned much about avoiding unwarranted wars.

And if has not learned much about respecting the veterans of wars.

Just as in the aftermath of World War I veterans were abused when they made reasonable demands for economic justice at home, so veterans are today abused when they make the same sort of demands.

After World War I, veterans seeking bonuses they had been promised were shot in the streets of Washington.


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What you know about unwarranted wars? You ever fought in one?

I agree about the bonus army debacle, but it did lead to the GI bill of rights. Don't compare the occupiers to the bonus army. All the men of the bonus army were registered members of the war and no scumbags were allowed in the ranks. Can't say that about the occupiers army of drugs and thugs and poop and bugs.