Semper Fi
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EL PASO – In 1918, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour, fighting ceased in World War I. This particular war was designated “the war to end all wars.” That particular November day has eventually become what we know as Veteran’s Day; it is not the day that all war ended. We may no longer be able to remember Washington or Lincoln’s birthday, but this date is unmistakable; today is this day. My personal belief is that we have had thousands of years of “civilization,” enough to teach us ways to solve our differences in more “civilized” ways. Perhaps we have not learned so much from our past as we think we have. Nevertheless, we keep sending young men and now women to represent our government’s official positions at home and abroad. Those official positions are clothed in patriotic rhetoric, but sometimes we can see the slip of opportunism or greed showing.
