In a May 25 editorial “Saluting sacrifice,” The Columbian has noted it is a legal requirement to “pause” at 3 p.m. for a moment of silence on Memorial Day for the dead soldiers. Does not every citizen have a duty to this country that goes far beyond “pausing?” Was this country not fought for and founded by citizen militias? The draft was eliminated and now our duty is to “pause.” How patronizing.
For our nation to hide behind soldiers’ sacrifice is disgraceful. Korean police action, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan are all undeclared wars, unconstitutional, all based on phoney dogma, phoney intelligence by arrogant, lying leadership, with more to come.
“Pausing,” I think far more should be a “legal requirement.”
Bill Kelley
Yacolt
