Reframing Remembrance Day
Submitted on November 11, 2011
By Jason Kunin - November 11, 2011
It is an eternal feature of war that the people who die in them are rarely the people who start them, and they are seldom the people who profit from them. We should recognize the nobility of sacrifice on their part, but we should not let that cloud our moral judgment by readily assuming, without reason or question, that the cause for which they fought was always just.
