Making Light doesn't seem to have its usual crop of links on the Great War, but:
- bossymarmalade on Dreamwidth reposted the video on Canadian Chinese WWII veterans (link going to this year's repost) with more details (it's still heartbreaking).
- Native American Netroots has an article on the situation of the serving military with regard to state tax laws and/or whether they are domiciled on reservations, and it is not surprising to learn that information is not particularly widespread.
- Shark-fu's post from last year is so on point that I'm relinking it.
- [whoops, wrong again], but last year's post is still pertinent [and this year's post is ongoing documentation]..
- Prof. Susurro's evocative pictures, with:
I am grateful to the members of my family who fought in wars to stop Hitler and Fascism, and glad for those members who survived the unjust war in Vietnam to make it home and fight against anymore unjust deployments and raise awareness about the real needs & rights of the Vietnamese and Cambodian people. To all the military families who have sacrificed for our safety and the safety of women and children in times of crisis and ethnic cleansing, in Somalia, Bosnia, and all around the world, thank you. I am forever grateful to those veterans who fought for freedom of enslaved African Americans, founded civil rights organizations, and continue to struggle for the equality of marginalized people inside and outside the military. And to those who continue to sacrifice and to protect innocent civilians from those on both sides who think their lives do not matter or kill them with prejudice, thank you and come home safe.
- What I said in '08.
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