Freedom

Freedom, especially freedom from tyranny, comes IN SPITE OF the US military, not because of them.

There are many authoritarians in the USA will “honor and glorify” the dead members of the US military.  Those ceremonies and memorials and statues that they instigate will pay lip service to freedom while the very same people order freedom crushed whenever they feel like it, whenever they disagree with what other people are saying.  That is what is going on now with the Occupy movement.  While our politicians will hold Memorial Day and Veteran's Day ceremonies and spew a bunch of lies about how all those needless deaths gave us freedom and democracy, they are the very same people who will crush freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.  They are the same people who don't give a shit what the US Constitution says.

Our veterans did not die defending our freedoms and our democracy any more than they went to Iraq to provide freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people.  They went to Iraq to control the oil, in order to benefit western countries over eastern ones, and to make a pile of money for the elites.  That's it.