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I agree with your intentions here. Its an old cliche but still holds true that the past is there to learn from, and act upon interpretation. This is nothing against your post, of course, but merely that the 'do gooders' need to realise that judgement has its place when it rests in compassion. Words, said in the right way are very powerful. And the first thing to do when I hear the word 'Vets' is to remember the horrors they faced, take note of their suffering, help them, and then to start criticising what was done. In this situation I find it a tradegy that some can say so easily how badly things were done, but to forget why there were done by the majority of the people that took part in this. Its so easy to point a finger, instead, if we can carry some pains, perhaps we can build by knowing and then instead of saying why? change this to why not and in so doing, liberate all factions involved knowing that its the human condition that needs help. No easy task admittedly, and to side with you here, given what I have said, the soldiers that have beared the horrors (the ones who really have), who can still stand up and say 'yes we were wrong' whilst knowing that beforehand they did not know this, is the noblest side of a human I can think of.
But, first and foremost for me, those who bore the tradegies must be thanked, must be praised, not because of what they did, but because of why they did it. Yet, with this asking, as we go deeper, we have to carry the wight of their pain to liberate. This is the pain of good power, but places one in the highest ethics of human nature.
This post is directed at all of us. Slightly off topic, but you could say the general topic (i.e. the whole situation, in its entirity) 'strikes a nerve'.
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). Of course the message of Jesus, not the man, but the intent, is what matters. 