We Need to be the Pro-Peace Generation
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What the Baby Boomer generation should have learned we need to. They, as a collective, got it right. They saw the illegal war in Vietnam for what it was. A waste of life, money and our honor as a nation. The Boomers were the youth then, younger than we are now, and pushed for change and reform and saw it through. They protested the war, they risked their futures by avoiding the draft, they fought for what they believed in and wanted, a more peaceful world. Today though, they have failed. The Boomers clamored for war these last two decades, sending our generation off to fight in pointless wars in places and against people that meant us no harm and never had the ability to harm us. They cursed the generation that sent them off to pointless wars, yet now they do it to our generation. They were right all those years ago, they didn’t learn though… they didn’t listen to their own words… and the price again are young lives, money and honor.
Recently the President ordered 1000 US troops to withdraw from the Turkish boarder. Note he didn’t wanna lower troop numbers in the middle east, as shortly after 2000 more troops were ordered to Saudi Arabia. Upon learning of the order the corporate media and war hawks were up in arms. Claiming that the President was betraying our ally the Kurds and letting them be attacked by the Turks, totally forgetting the fact that the Turks have been our ally since the 1950’s. What we saw again was the Boomer generation wanting more young Americans to shed their blood for a people that can’t help us to help kill people we have no issue with and that can’t harm us.
It is now our time, and has been for a while to be honest, that we first as individuals lead more peaceful lives. That we advocate for it in our words and more importantly our actions. Then as a collective our voices can and will be heard. The murdering of people in countries most Americans can’t even find on a map needs to end, not tomorrow but yesterday. The trillions of dollars wasted to just make issues worse around the world can be saved. The young American blood, our future, no longer should be shed against people that mean us no harm or even have the ability to harm us as a nation.
Our generation, my generation, I was sent off to a far away place for no purpose but to inflict harm on others that had no intention to harm me. It is our responsibility and duty as individuals first and a generation second to learn and practice what our parents didn’t. These wars need to end, peace is always an option and should be the first one sought out, war and murder the last option, if it should even be one. We need to be the pro-peace generation. Our children will thank us for it.
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Leo Sowers
