As we honor veterans, may we find better ways to resolve conflict
Peace must follow justice. It is no accident that when veterans from the Union and Confederate sides of Gettysburg met and shook hands 50 years after the battle there was soon national agreement to enact Jim Crow. This is called losing the peace.
As to soldiers v. causes, the most interesting discussion is by the Bard in Henry V when Hal disguises himself before Agincourt and goes out to take the temperature of the troops. War is often about unseating the strong who oppress the weak. Any war that is not is immoral. Any peace that sweeps this under the rug is unjust.
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