“All gave some, some gave all” — just another statist piety. Most lives in war are taken.
Conscripts, especially, do not “give their lives for their country.” The state takes those lives.
The day after Veterans Day seems as good as any to drop dangerous terms of art and speak in plain language.
Wirkman Virkkala is a freelance editor and propagandist living in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Formerly a founding editor of Liberty magazine, he has written for Reason, The American Enterprise, and the late, great Loompanics Unlimited Catalog, as well as many other sites and publications.
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