For My Fellow Peacemakers
Would that it were Memorial Day every day. For we could be continually reminded of the deeply tragic costs of war. As I watch the images and read the words of those who would have us believe that “this was a good war” and “that was a brave battle,” my antenna detects a trap. When we fall prey to the glorification of war—any war—we are being set up. “For what?,” you may ask. “For the next war,” I answer. There…