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Are Soldiers Heroes or Paid Killers?
The Vietnam War ended when soldiers threw away their medals, laid down their weapons and refused to fight. It ended when they stopped calling themselves heroes and when the public and their families stopped calling them heroes.
SANH (Soldiers Are Not Heroes) is a young movement that does not seek to hate any individual soldier, killer, or government. (soldiersarenotheroes.org)
It advocates peace and non-violence and discusses principles beyond national boundaries. It is a new world morality, emerging through the internet and embracing a peaceful future.
SANH examines war and mans hate for man as expressed in the media which is controlled by moguls and governments against the best interests of the majority. Soldiers put down their weapons when SANH started working in their lives. The mission of this movement is to advocate peace and non-violence, to question the propoganda that a man becomes a hero by wearing a uniform, to refuse to conform to the dictates of propagandists and warlords, no matter what flag they wave. Peace means NOT killing.
We are peaceful individuals joining in unison with civilised people around the world, who do not see war as a solution.
We, not the media, will choose who we call heroes. "Soldiers are not our heroes. They can be heroes, they can act heroically, they can do heroic things - but the act of putting on a uniform and agreeing to put your conscience in a lockbox does not exempt you from moral judgement. It does not make you a hero...and we should not fall prey to hero-worship.”
Stand up and show members of the armed forces what you really think of their participation in needless war, bloodshed, killing, torturing and maiming."
FAMOUS AND MEMORABLE QUOTES:
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ~Albert Einstein
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals, to be used as pawns for foreign policy" - Henry Kissinger. Nobel Peace Prize Recipient.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. ~A. J. P. Taylor
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ~Albert Camus
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ~Abraham Lincoln
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ~Adolph Hitler
In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~Aesop
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ~Albert Einstein
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~François-Marie Arouet
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann
"In two weeks, the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury, that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties." ~Albert Einstein 1934
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~John F Kennedy
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