“…he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying ’Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another’”(Acts 7:26).
On “Memorial Day,” Americans especially remember and honor their war dead. They renew their resolve “that these dead shall not have died in vain.” But whether or not they died in vain depends on us and what we do: to de-romanticize War, to denounce War, to make War the victim of a holy people so that never again will people be made victims of “Holy Wars.”
Has the killing and maiming made us desperate enough to echo with finality the words of General William Tecumseh Sherman: “I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have never fired a shot, not heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
If we honor our war-dead by recognizing the folly and the futility of war, they will…
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