America is my mother and my mother is my responsibility.

Remembering the martyrs and honoring the armed forces on veterans day may make you feel proud, but sustaining a tradition that conditions you to celebrate the loss of life in the name of patriotism is not something to take pride in - if anything this celebration is a brutal reminder of tribalism - of our shortfalls - of our inability to assimilate - of our failure in becoming truly civilized. Therefore, the need of the hour is, we work so that we no longer need a veterans day.

Guns belong to soldiers, not civilians.

Those who do not appreciate the soldiers and instead pompously talk about peace, should try to live a single day without the soldiers.