When your armed forces are seen more as an illegitimate arm of a neo-fascists regime it is hard to celebrate.
But we Americans find a way. To quote my local Israeli, “You celebrate your war heros by running huge sales on cars and crap you don’t need, then go on vacation, BBQ something and sit in the car for 6 hours?”
Yup, we are The Americans.
One can only remotely ponder what it would be like if we, The Americans, were faced with continual existential crisis and have compulsory military service. Perhaps we would have a few less deadbeats and be a little more gun-shy.
The funny part is, I don’t know if we have ever faced such an insidious threat as we are up against now: ourselves.
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