U.S. war veterans raise their hands in solidarity after throwing their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit in Chicago May 20, 2012. Nearly 50 veterans threw service medals into the street near the summit site in protest. Adrees Latif/Reuters
Memorial Day: Among Post-9/11 Veterans, Seepening Antiwar Sentiment -- Christian Science Monitor
This Memorial Day the Iraq war is over and the Afghanistan war is winding down, but they're weighing heavily on post-9/11 veterans, 33 percent of whom said they weren't worth the cost.
Despite the end of the Iraq war and the scheduled drawdown in Afghanistan, this Memorial Day arrives against a backdrop of deepening – and some say more troublesome – antiwar sentiment among military veterans.
One of the most vivid and replayed images of protesters at the NATO summit last weekend in Chicago was a group of some 40 vets lined up to toss their war medals over the chain link fence to protest what former naval officer Leah Bolger calls “the illegal wars of both NATO and America.”
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My Comment: This anti-war sentiment is nothing new. It is interesting to note that when he was running for the Republican Presidential ticket early this year .... Ron Paul's support among veterans was more than all the other candidates .... President Obama included .... combined! This also was reflected in fund raising. Why was this case .... Mother Jones probably has the best explanation for it .... and it ties in to recent polls that show this growth of current anti-war sentiment within the (former and present) military ranks.