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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhom Will We Honor Memorial Day? - Howard Zinn
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.
In 1974, I was invited by Tom Winship, the editor of the Boston Globe, who had been bold enough in 1971 to print part of the top secret Pentagon Papers on the history of the Vietnam War, to write a bi-weekly column for the op-ed page of the newspaper. I did that for about a year and a half. The column below appeared June 2, 1976, in connection with that year's Memorial Day. After it appeared, my column was canceled.
More at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0528-07.htm
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Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day? - Howard Zinn (Original Post)
donheld
May 2012
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"Let us not set out, this Memorial Day, on the same old drunken ride to death."
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
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Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)1. "Let us not set out, this Memorial Day, on the same old drunken ride to death."
It is days and times like this that make me think perhaps a draft isn't so bad. People that know war are much slower to enter them.
donheld
(21,311 posts)2. This should be required reading.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,691 posts)3. K&R to the Greatest Page, where it richly belongs...n/t
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)4. Dear amazing Howard Zinn, still teaching.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)5. Let us honor Howard Zinn as well. nt