or in war
God and the soldier we adore.
Danger past, and
all things righted?
God is forgotten
and the soldier slighted."
I seldom feel more than a slightly irked contempt for the "Support Our Troops" sort of warrior- and war-hugging that gets trotted out on days like today and the last weekend in May. But this one always seems somehow even more false, since the only real reason for it is to commemorate the end of the insanely stupid slaughter of WW1, which we in fact neither remember nor reverence. As I tell anyone who "thanks" me for my service today; I didn't do it for you. Oh, and I'll take the bonus Congress promised me now, without a side of beatings and gas, thanks.
I remain stubbornly proud of my service and the ideals of my country that led me to that service.
But of the country itself, its "leaders", and many of its people, I am no longer so sure.
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