Scrap Medal
May 21, 2012
Dozens of anti-war veterans tossed their medals onto a Chicago street Sunday near the NATO summit. Good for them. Some called their medals “representations of hate,” “lies,” and “cheap tokens.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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