Greatest Generation, Good War, Blah-Blah-Blah | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
May 19, 2014
As we approach not only another Memorial Day but also the 70th anniversary of D-Day, well, you know what that means: enforced nostalgia, chauvinism, and anniversary mania.
In the midst of our perpetual war vs. evil, America is yet again celebrating the original "good war." More than just a good war, in fact, corporate media shill Tom Brokaw deemed WWII "the greatest war the world has seen."
But the United States fought that war against racism with a segregated army.
It fought that war to end atrocities by participating in the shooting of surrendering soldiers, the starvation of POWs, the deliberate bombing of civilians, wiping out hospitals, strafing lifeboats, and in the Pacific boiling flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts.
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