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05:24 am - QotD

"There's a lot of pious and sometimes well-meaning celebration of the sacrifices soldiers and sailors and airmen have made for our freedom and dignity over the years. Many of the boys and girls under those stones agreed, and went willingly to join the silent legions of the dead. Many of them, if they could, would join me now in saying cut the crap. War is the controlled use of force to bring about political ends. It's young people asked to murder strangers to protect the fortunes of the old. In its final escalation it may kill us all." -- Vietnam veteran and science fiction author, joe-haldeman (b. 1943-06-09) [Wikipedia entry], 2009-05-25 [thanks to smilingslightly for linking to it]