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Memorial Day: Visualizing America's Wartime Veterans

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Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who died in service to their country. The holiday was officially proclaimed in 1868 to honor Union and Confederate soldiers and was expanded after World War I to honor those who died in all wars. Today, Memorial Day honors over one million men and women who have died in military service since the Civil War. This infographic compiles statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Defense to honor our men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

 

 

And some historic quotes inspired by the supreme patriotic sacrifice made by so many:

 

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

- James Bryce

 

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

- George Washington  

 

 

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    • WATER is Life

      SOME MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGES TO YOU ‘WAR-FREAKS’ OF THE u.s. of TERROR :!: :!: :!:
      MAY YOU ALL DIE UGLY DEATHS FROM THE D.U. AND AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE YOU GOT WHILE ACTING AS ‘ATTACK-DOGS’ WORLD-WIDE FOR YOUR VERY, VERY, FASCIST GOVERNMENT THAT ‘USES YOU UP, AND THROWS YOU AWAY’, LIKE A DISH-RAG!
      FOOLS!

      No – to all of your criminal acts THAT YOU VOLUNTEERED FOR!
      WAR DOG! Now, stay down, dog of war”! Follow my command, now.
      You listened to too much talmud-reading Zionist dog owned us national networks –all four of them now!!! And one owned by A ZIOINST PIG-NOT EVEN A u.s. of TERROR CITIZEN (fox-the “conservative” view HAHAHAHAHAHA-THE WAR-MONGER CHANNEL!)
      I DID NOT ASK YOU TO COMMITT SUICIDE, CAUSE YOU ARE WALKING DEAD! YOU ARE IRRADIATED WITH DEPLETED URANUIM MUNITIONS (DU), WAR-CRIMINAL patronsaint, THAT YOU RAINED DOWN ON LARGE CIVILIAN POPULATIONS, THAT YOU SAT ON TOP OF IN THAT ATTACK HELICOPTER THAT YOU STOLE THE NAME FOR FROM ANOTHER LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE YOU ANNILAILATED under the guise of being “good chris-SCUM-DUMB “people”. You are a pure brain-washed from birth KILLER-CULT! PERIOD! You are all dangerous to the entire world.

      Hey, white male chris-SCUM-DUMB brain-washed piece of shit us of TERROR MILITARY VET, you will die ugly. I’LL TELL YOU WHAT THE “FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS” WERE THAT “YOUR SIDE-THE SYSTEM”-DID NOT, you gullible pathetic evil creature, DOWN AT THE “VA”!.

      http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/22/du-you-dont-have-to-inhale-or-ingest-it-for-it-to-make-you-sick/

      FOR EXTRA PAY, YOU WORSHIPER OF MAMMON! Do NOT DARE SAY you committed mass murder on command FOR ME! YOU DID IT FOR MONEY! AND YOU WERE TOLD IT WOULD BE A CAKEWALK TO ATTRACT YOUR YOUNG GULLIBLE ASS INTO IT. You were “conned”. PERIOD!
      YOU ARE PURE EVIL! WORKING FOR PURE EVIL.
      And now you will suffer even more.
      I have the joy of knowing that all took big breathes of air on the battle field which had flying around in it literally itty bitty “hot particles” spread all around when you war criminals of the u.s of TERROR used Depleted Uranium Munitions on the residents of Afghanistan, NO THREAT TO ME OR YOU, FOOL!!! You sat on top of the DU munitions when riding around. You came in contact with it when in the warehouse, when loading it, when handling it.
      Now, you expose & radiate your killer-cult wife, maybe you will have a “SPACE ALIEN” looking baby, next! ALL FOR YOUR COUNTRY, YOU SICK WAR-CRIMINAL!

      What joy this brings TO ME because the following is what it means FOR YOU:
      Very malignant fast acting cancers of all sorts will form in the individuals who have consumed and inhaled hot particles.
      Diabetes type 2 at pandemic levels.
      A tremendous rise in the infant death syndrome.
      Human genetic mutations (SPACE-ALIEN LOOKING BABIES, dumb-shit!), also, of all types.
      Genetic mutations of every living thing including bacteria and viruses.
      A tremendous drop in “viable male sperm count” versus what is considered “fertile” or “normal levels” in the rest of the world that has not been affected by Depleted Uranium Munitions.

      Just read an obituary (LA times) of a DEAD 37 year old-ex marine- Iraq “war” (MASSACRE) veteran . ground combat – 5 years out of combat – dead of bile duct cancer (ouchhhhhhhhhhhhhh!). His “wife” will not get any extra reward for his-combat related death, FOOL!

      Your own side is KILLING YOU! FOOL!
      Here is the cure for you, EVIL u.s. of TERROR ‘VOLUNTEERS’ OF THE military of DEATH.
      YOU WILL NOT GET IT AT THE V.A. HOSPITAL, IDIOT!
      THEY WANT TO KILL YOU and then pay you no more “benefits”!

      http://www.gwpharm.com/about-us-overview.aspx

      http://projectcbd.org/
      If you “volunteered” READ ON!

      Why do I continuously have to listen to your kind (saw heavy combat) whine about “your service for your country”?

      VIETNAM WAS A MASSACRE. Your own u.s. of TERROR DOD STATES (PROUDLY) “OVER 2,000,000” SOUTHEAST ASIANS WERE MASSACRED IN 10 YEARS, while you ‘whining’ white-skinned INVADER- ‘ameri-SCUM’ LIST 55,000 military fatalities.
      A FREEKIN MASSACRE!
      THAT IS WHAT YOU ‘PROUDLY’ SERVED IN, BABY KILLER!
      “FOR YOUR COUNTRY”?
      Is that what you say to yourself every night before you go to sleep to explain your ‘horrendous acts’?
      How do you sleep at night?
      Tell us all about your “dreams”, you attack dog with white-skin invading foreign lands “to save them” from communism?

      YOU ARE A CERTIFIED AGENT-ORANGE SPRAYED WAR CRIMINAL-YOU HAVE SLAUGHTERED WOMEN, CHILDREN AND CIVILIANS ‘ON COMMAND’!
      YOU ‘volunteering’ IDIOTS MADE THE “Viet Nam MASSACRE” HAPPEN.
      YOU ARE CULPABLE, WAR CRIMINAL, IN EVERY WAY FOR ‘JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS”!

      LET’S SING TOGETHER THE FAVORITE SONG OF YOUR KIND, white-skinned male, self proclaimed members of judeo-chris-SCUM-DUMB, WHO LIVE TO HOARD, AND WILL KILL ‘ON COMMAND’, ‘AS A GROUP’, ALL OTHERS, TO HOARD MORE!

      Onward judeo-chris-SCUM-DUMB HOARDER/KILLERS!

      MARCHING OFF TO WAR (OVER & OVER AGAIN)!

      AND WITH THIS BATTERING-RAM CROSS, WE’LL COME KNOCK-IN DOWN YOUR DOOR!

      RAPE YOUR WIFE & ENSLAVE YOUR KIDS.

      Oh, WHAT FUN IT IS (that is why we do it so often!)!

      And, at the end of the day, I’ll go to ‘confession’, hey, hey, hey!

      AND, I’LL GO TO HEAVEN ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!

      FOR YOUR memorial ‘WAR’ HOLIDAY,
      HERE IS A PARTIAL LIST (COMPILED FROM YOUR OWN DOD, BY THE WAY!!!!!!!)
      OF YOUR ‘THINGS TO CELEBRATE’, YOU OLD ‘ATTACK DOG’, YOU!

      HEY, on a personal note, HOW IS THAT ‘AGENT ORANGE’ SPRAYED ALL OVER YOUR ‘BELIEVING’ BUTT (WHILE ‘serving your country’ in the Viet Nam MASSACRE) – DON’T WORRY, IT WILL NOT HURT YOU, SAID YOUR ‘COMMAND”, TO YOU, NAIVE FOOL) :?: :?: :?: :?:
      Any nasty cancers yet?
      What about kids, or grand kids with “human mutations” (birth defects) caused by your exposure to agent orange during ‘heavy combat’?

      WELL, QUITE FRANKLY, YOU DESERVE IT ALL!
      PAY BACK REALLY IS A “BITCH”, ISN’T IT?
      ESPECIALLY FROM THE ‘BETRAYAL’ OF YOUR OWN u.s. of TERROR DOD COMMAND……LANDING SQUARELY ON YOU AND ‘YOURS’! FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, BY THE WAY!

      I bet there are A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRY’S THAT WOULD JUST ‘LOVE’ TO MEET u.s. of TERROR ex-military, JUST LIKE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      ALL ALONE!

      The United States, officially a secular nation but predominantly Christian, attacked

      El Salvador (1980), Libya (1981), Sinai (1982), Lebanon (1982 1983), Egypt (1983), Grenada (1983), Honduras (1983), Chad (1983), Persian Gulf (1984), Libya (1986) , Bolivia (1986), Iran (1987), Persian Gulf (1987), Kuwait (1987), Iran (1988), Honduras (1988), Panama (1988), Libya (1989), Panama (1989), Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru (1989), Philippines (1989), Panama (1989-1990), Liberia (1990), Saudi Arabia (1990), Iraq (1991), Zaire (1991), Sierra Leone (1992), Somalia (1992), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993 to present), Macedonia (1993), Haiti (1994), Macedonia (1994), Bosnia (1995), Liberia (1996), Central African Republic (1996), Albania (1997), Congo/Gabon (1997), Sierra Leon (1997), Cambodia (1997), Iraq (1998), Guinea/Bissau (1998), Kenya/Tanzania (1998 to 1999), Afghanistan/Sudan (1998), Liberia (1998), East Timor (1999), Serbia (1999), Sierra Leon (2000), Yemen (2000), East Timor (2000), Afghanistan (2001 to present), Yemen (2002), Philippines (2002) , Cote d’Ivoire (2002), Iraq (2003 to present), Liberia (2003), Georgia/Djibouti (2003), Haiti (2004), Georgia/Djibouti/Kenya/Ethiopia/Yemen/Eritrea War on Terror (2004), Pakistan drone attacks (2004 to present), Somalia (2007), South Ossetia/Georgia (2008), Syria (2008), Yemen (2009), Haiti (2010), etc. etc. etc. etc.

      Any way, NO TEARS FOR YOU FROM ME, nam vets!
      I am the same guy that your kind feared SO MUCH that you did NOT WEAR YOUR MILITARY UNIFORMS WHEN ALONE IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC in the u.s. when the Viet Nam MASSACRE was in progress. (You remember, you were verbally heckled, and worse, if identified as ‘serving your country’, you got spit on, literally).

      MY MEMORIAL DAY WISH FOR YOU, Grunt0331, a ‘nam-vet’ (who saw heavy combat).

      I AM SURE YOUR I.S.P. NUMBER HAS BEEN RECORDED, AND TRACED BACK TO YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
      I hope the “PIGS” ARE AT YOUR DOOR SHORTLY!

      BEWARE, u.s. of TERROR ‘ALPHABET-SOUP’ PIGS,
      THIS AGENT-ORANGE-SPRAYED nam vet LUNATIC IS ARMED AND DANGEROUS!!!!
      GO GET EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      AND DO NOT MIND THE ‘COLLATERAL DAMAGE’ IF YOU HIT HIS FAMILY with ‘friendly fire’!

      He never did. GIVE HIM ‘NO QUARTER’

    • PropagandaEverywhere

      LMFAO, everything they fought for has been stripped away. They fought for nothing but banks, corporations, and governments interests nothing more.

      At this point the militaries defending these assholes ARE the problem…

      And go look up the military testing aerosol on a poor city during the 70′s, which just got revealed… These people aren’t anything to honor, they have no dignity, and if every investigated the world would be disgusted by their actions like so many of us already are.

      Come torture me assholes!

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