What Was I Fighting For?
Based on an interview by Z.P. Heller, editorial director of Brave New Films
I never detained or arrested anyone guilty of a crime.
I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, I didn't fully grasp the extent of these failed foreign policies or our government's deception until I returned home from war. Realizing there never were weapons of mass destruction, and that we would have difficulty tracking terrorists even if we had committed all the troops in our military, I ...
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My father inlaw helped liberate the concentration camps in Germany, he never spoke of this to his family. In fact he liberated the Austrian village his parents had been married in, so there was a real reason to keep quiet. Talking to him as one veteran who had seen the atrosities war to another, I was devastated by what he described and realized the courage it took to drag up the memories of helping to kill a person by giving them food and water and seeing what man was capable of. We did not listen to the plight of the Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and other minorities in WWII, we did not listen to the troops on the ground in Korea or Vietnam, now we are not listening to them in Southern Asia. Those that do not learn from history are destined to repeat its failures.