OPINION — Every year, we pause on Veterans Day to celebrate our veterans for their service. But for decades now, many returning veterans have asked us for more than platitudes.
“You’re making me nervous every time you thank me for my service,” Doug Rawlings, Veterans For Peace co-founder, wrote in his poem, “Walking the Wall.” He added, “Nothing really is as it seems.”
Many of the thousands of sailors who disembarked from the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in October would agree. For most of this year, the ship was stationed off the coast of Iran, where the Trump administration launched a senseless and unwinnable war of choice in February.
