To remind people that Veteran's Day is approaching, Metropolitan State College of Denver got a visit from the American Veteran's Traveling Tribute. A smaller replica of the Vietnam Memorial, they also have replica's of the dogtags for soldiers killed since 1980 in the Middle East and a tribute to the soldiers of the Korean War. It made me think about a line from the book "Use of Weapons" by Iain Banks:
"There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots."
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