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Thank every veteran you meet today for their service in YOUR name for our nation and our world.
And hope that peace breaks out all over the world. We commemorate the end of the "War for Civilization" on this day. (that's what it says on my Grandfather's WWI service medal). It was supposed to be the "War that Ends All War". Sadly, it was not.
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Sorry to break into the reverie but there were over 400,000 colored soldiers that served in that war, when they came home they came home to race riots and lynchings.
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Later the former troops felt compelled to march on Washington just to demand what the government had promised them but then reneged on paying, the former veterans were attacked by our own troops and driven out of DC.
cbelt can tell you who led those attacks.
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We, as a nation, should hold our heads in shame for the way we've treated our veterans. It goes on today with the lack of support these people (many of whom were held over way too long) returning from the middle east get from us today.
If you want to honor them call your Representative or Senator and tell them that they need to pass at least two of the three vet benefit bills currently being bottled up in Congress.
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RgrF wrote:
Sorry to break into the reverie but there were over 400,000 colored soldiers that served in that war, when they came home they came home to race riots and lynchings.
As a teen back in the '60's I used to deliver the local paper to one of these vets. He and his brother had both served in WW I, but it was not until then that they could join one of the veteran's groups. At least one of the main groups did not allow black vets as members until then.
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and they called it "the great war",
the war to end all war.
sadly they were wrong.
an american flag hung from my terrace all day.
ymmv
be well
rob