War is the fault of all the soldiers who wage it

What's so great about military veterans, particularly those who weren't drafted? They chose that line of work. They got paid. They got and will continue to get benefits at our expense. And they gave us, the United States, a terrible reputation all over the world. 

Why not honor teaching veterans or medical veterans or veteran bus drivers? How come these folks don't get subsidized housing and medicine for life, like the killers in uniform?

Why just honor people who trained in how to kill and (many of them) went ahead and killed? How did actions that led to deaths of many, many people living in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Afghanistan "serve" the United States?

Buffy Sainte-Marie was right when she wrote,

He's the universal soldier 

And he really is to blame. 

His orders come from 

far away no more. 

They come from him. 

And you and me. 

And brothers can't you see.

This is not the way we put an end to war.