Quit for Peace

First, let me say that even though I don’t know you, I probably will never meet you, I do, with all of my heart, love you. This is why I want you to live, not die, nor to live a half-life filled with regret and hatred of yourself, nor for you to kill other people. I, too, once believed in the greatness of the United States. I believed with a fervor that serving in the military was the highest calling I could imagine. I proudly served my country, until I started to see what was really going on.

I served on active duty from 1992-1996, during what I thought was peace time. I have never been so wrong. The United States military, along with NATO and the UN, had been engaged in 15 military campaigns in 4 short years. Some of these were humanitarian campaigns, but most were out and out shows of force and bombings of sovereign nations.

I started to realize the US Government tricks people into believing that nationalism is good and dying for your country is the highest honor. Is dying for a flag and leaving behind your family really the highest honor you could give? How about staying around to take care of your parents and/or children and wives/husbands? Who really benefits from your death? The US war machine does and it is the only one.

Young men and women, please quit for peace. You do not know how murdering others will haunt you for the rest of your life. Do you really want to murder someone just because they look different or sound different than you? All governments seek to divide people, this is the way they keep us under control and domination.

Older men and women, you also can quit for peace. You may know the difficulties presented when you believe you have to kill someone. You know the stress this places on you, which in turn places stress –on your family, your friends, and your colleagues. Save yourselves and the countless others that find themselves ground under the boot of the US war machine.

YOU do have a choice, you can choose to quit 4 peace. Make your stand and stand up for peace. We can achieve peace in our lifetimes if you take your place in history and Quit 4 Peace! Do it now, do it for yourself, do it for all humanity!