Veterans - Land and Sea

Veteran's Day - Air

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an increasingly important part of modern warfare, a philosophical rift developed between more traditional ground-based army personnel and those who felt that aircraft were being underutilized and that air operations were being stifled for political reasons unrelated to their effectiveness. The USAAC was renamed from the earlier United States Army Air Service on 2 July 1926, and was part of the larger United States Army. The Air Corps became the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) on 20 June 1941, giving it greater autonomy from the Army's middle-level command structure. During World War II, although not an administrative echelon, the Air Corps (AC) remained as one of the combat arms of the Army until 1947, when it was legally abolished by legislation establishing the Department of the Air Force.^[1]

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” ― George S. McGovern

Golden Gate National Cemetery

A quiet city

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

~Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

~Abraham Lincoln

In war, truth is the first casualty.

~Aeschylus

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

~Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

~Albert Einstein

“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ” 
― Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire

“Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?” 
― Edward St. Aubyn

“Care: not carnage 
Love: not loathing
Peace: not pieces” 
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“War serves only the warlords and the graveyards!” 
“Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Each day of war takes us farther from all we could hope to be or do. We gain nothing but heartbreak, and lose everything we cherish. Our lives erode and diminish, our children see no future except a calendar of anguish and death. Our only hope for tomorrow is for peace now.” 
― Lloyd Alexander

“As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.” 
― Eugene B. Sledge

“It is in unity that we find strength, in unity we find hope, and in unity we can stand firm as the darkness approaches. Let us stand together – and stand firm – against the many faces of hate.” 
― Nick Lowles

“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.” 
― Sharon Kay Penman, Falls the Shadow

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

~Abba Eban