Memorial Thoughts

Last weekend there was much talk of honoring the servicemen and women who have made so many sacrifices for the rest of us. If we wish to truly honor them we should make sure we are a nation that is worthy of that sacrifice. While it is well and proper to send them to harm's way to protect citizens, allies, and innocents but we should not ask them to sacrifice to merely protect American greed. If our military must protect our access to foreign oil and we consume so much more than our moral share of that resource, we, as a nation, need to make some changes. Americans don't have an inalienable right to force our notions of government onto others however much we ourselves may revere those notions. And we do not honor our military by asking them to participate in forcing those notions onto unwilling people.