Gimmie Sum Wood...

I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.

- An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)

Yes, I know this will piss off lots of people once they’ve read it. If it does so that’s their prerogative. But after reading it the words rang so “damn’ true. I’m a Nam Vet which is nothing to brag about. Yes, I was there but unlike thousands I gave so little. Honor the Vet but Honor them by bringing them all home, Honor them by making war on corporations not people. 

jSweptson 

(via jsweptson)

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