Comments on: Salute https://livingwithscleroderma.com/salute/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Wed, 27 May 2015 22:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/salute/#comment-29429 Wed, 27 May 2015 22:50:22 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3337#comment-29429 In reply to Pat Bizzell.

Thanks, Pat. Your comment is well taken.

]]> By: Pat Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/salute/#comment-29369 Wed, 27 May 2015 13:50:20 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3337#comment-29369 Very thoughtful post, Ev, and I agree that Memorial Day should focus on thanking our veterans. I was also moved by your account of three elderly veterans standing up in shul. This prompts two reflections. One: that military service tends to be distributed in the U.S. now at least, by social class. If you are middle class or higher, you may very well not know any younger person who chose to serve in the military. Two: that younger people (by which I mean, younger than WWII vets) may not want to acknowledge publicly that they have served, so as to avoid awkward questions (“Did you kill anybody?”) or even hostility.Something to think about if one favors civilian control or oversight of the nation’s military objectives.

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