Seeking to speak truth to power, Veterans For Peace are rejecting an official narrative they say sanitizes and mythologizes an unconscionable war - and likely helps legitimize further such wars - by organizing their own Peace and Justice Commemoration as part of a larger Full Disclosure Campaign. Its goal is to truly examine what happened during those tragic and tumultuous years, and use those lessons to prevent them from happening again. From the start, many have questioned what longtime activist Tom Hayden calls the staggering idea of a commemoration orchestrated by the Department of Defense. Citing the Pentagons questionable version of the truth that for so long sustained an immoral war, he convincingly argues that, If you conduct a war, you shouldn’t be in charge of narrating it. Almost everything about the project, from its website full of glossy pictures of smiling veterans to its very language - its mission to assist a grateful nation in thanking veterans, Obamas thinking with solemn reverence upon the valor of a generation, its initial labelling of the massacre of 500 women, children and older men at My Lai an incident - bears out the notion that the projects goal is largely an ex post facto justification of the war, or to rewrite history in order to repeat it with as little opposition as possible.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:57:41 +0000
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