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Spoiler alert: I really don’t know. Philosophically, the Pacifist position is to oppose all war. George Fox, founder of the famously Pacifist Quaker movement, said in 1660, “We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fighting with outward weapons,...
by senorjoel
on Sun Feb 27, 2022 at 12:05 AM PST
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by Nick Anderson
on Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 02:50 PM PST
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by kerrybate
on Fri Oct 09, 2020 at 01:34 PM PDT
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An active duty soldier, Master Sgt. David Royer, stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, is being hailed by the police. At 11 a.m. officers were called to shots being fired, at the Centennial Bridge, according to Leavenworth Police Chief, Patrick...
by Getting1
on Wed May 27, 2020 at 09:04 PM PDT
with 41 Recommends
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President Donald Trump denied Wednesday the account of a Democratic congresswoman that he told the widow of a US serviceman killed in an ambush in Niger that "he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt."
"Democrat Congresswoman...
by Tackk
on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 09:24 AM PDT
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(this is inspired by, and partly borrowed from, a speech from
the TV show "Colony", with a little of this and that borrowed
from here and there, for good measure, wrapped in inevitability)
We, the People, are under attack. As is our beloved country,...
by Willem da Foe
on Fri Mar 24, 2017 at 02:08 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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It appears that those who identify with hateful Republican rhetoric and actions have won the battle on Political Correctness. All the cruelty they espouse is, OK.
Make fun of the handicap, OK.
Disrespect or sexually abuse women, OK.
Call any...
by thinkingblue
on Sat Nov 19, 2016 at 05:19 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
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Years after my stepfather’s death in 1975, I found his photo album again, and took a good look at it. I eventually scanned nearly all of the photos and donated the prints to a veterans museum in a nearby city. Here are some of those images. Many of...
by Old Sailor
on Sun Jul 09, 2017 at 07:10 AM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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by TomDispatch
on Thu Apr 07, 2016 at 07:39 AM PDT
with 0 Recommends
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February is Black History Month
Today is
National Science Day
National Tooth Fairy Day
National Floral Design Day
National Chocolate Soufflé Day
by Tara Thralls
on Sun Feb 28, 2016 at 09:28 PM PST
with 5 Recommends
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Chris Herbert is a British war veteran. He lost his leg as the result of a bomb attack in Basra back in 2007. In recent days, Chris has been approached by people wanting and expecting him to rail agai
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Dec 09, 2015 at 11:13 AM PST
with 461 Recommends
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Bedford, ...
by hungeski
on Sun Oct 04, 2015 at 08:22 AM PDT
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OK, let’s acknowledge up front that Donald Trump is an asshole who does not deserve a moment of our attention. He is also a lunatic who believes that the Mexican government is controlling which ...
by Daver71
on Sun Jul 19, 2015 at 08:05 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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I am from the south. Born and raised, and lived the majority of my years so far in Georgia. Much of my family is from what you might call the really DEEP south, Alabama mostly. So it might be no ...
by wadark
on Wed Jul 08, 2015 at 08:06 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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Have you seen a meme with a picture of some ignored news story with a snarky complaint about how it's not being covered like the Caitlin Jenner story?
by alanevil
on Fri Jun 05, 2015 at 12:05 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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Let me start by explaining why this day is so important to me. War has been "good" to my family. No, not in the Krupps or the Fords way, but a long familial line of Chieftains, fighters, scrappers, mercenaries and general bad asses. My family's...
by snackdoodle
on Sun May 28, 2017 at 11:54 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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Gregory James Missman is the name of a dead American soldier. One of us, a working class stiff. The boy next door kinda guy, he didn’t have health insurance for himself and his family.
Soldier ...
by udubtub
on Thu Dec 11, 2014 at 05:42 AM PST
with 16 Recommends
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There was a gun fight inside Parilament which is now in lock-down. They believe that a shooter is still in the parliament buildings.
Updates :
- 1 shooter dead, 1 still believed at large in ...
by Agathena
on Wed Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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(I am a disabled veteran, long discharged. The following projects what my feelings would be if I were still in uniform today.)
I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my ...
by Mage11an
on Sat May 31, 2014 at 09:15 AM PDT
with 126 Recommends
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A couple of records back, I kind of got tired of writing songs about dead and broken fighting men and women. There'd been a pretty long string of them.
So I did something I don't often do: wrote a ...
by Crashing Vor
on Sat May 24, 2014 at 05:17 AM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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