大侠行天下日记 我见我闻我思 06/01

国殤日之省思

拜登总统国殤纪念日在阿灵顿国家公墓向阵亡将士官兵们致哀，他表示我们对於為国牺牲的将士们有着极大的歉疚，我们的国家建立在一个崇高的理想之上，但是我们的民主正遭受空前之挑战。

美国决定今年九月一日起全部从阿富汗撤军，根据国防部之数据，共有二千三百一十二人丧生， 其中不包括许多回国后因病去世的退役军人。

这场歷经二十年的战争，可能為美国在国外战争中划下句点，但是战争所带来的悲剧，可能永远无法消失。

今天的国殤纪念日，那些躺在公墓的牺牲军人，可能就是政客们错误决定的牺牲品，他们是在一些错误之决策下奔赴战㘯。

回顾二次大战以来，我们以世界警察之姿态，在全球各地掀起战争，无论在亚洲、中东 、美洲 及中南美洲后院，结果是枪桿子未能解决世界争端。

这一年多来，新冠病毒夺走了六十万国人之宝贵生命，所幸拜登总统大刀阔斧之疫苗接种计划，拯救了国人及经济，我们总算从废墟中走出来。

做為一个亚裔美国人，我们正遭受那些政治狂人及种族歧视之无知对待，无视我们对社会之贡献，政府应该积极作為，发挥法律保障措施，共同维护国民共同之安全权益保障。

值此国殤纪念日，我们盼望全国人民应充分体会战争之可怕，和平之珍贵。

Honoring Our Fallen Service Members

President Biden went to Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day to honor those who died serving in the military and urged Americans to strengthen and protect the nation’s democracy.

Biden said, “Democracy itself is in peril here at home and around the world. What we do now and how we honor the memory of the fallen will determine whether or not democracy will long endure.”

The president said, “We owe the honored dead a debt we can never fully repay.”

On this Memorial Day the U.S. also decided to fully withdraw from Afghanistan. According to the Department of Defense we lost a total of 2,312 service members there. This number does not include all of the lives lost at home from service-related illnesses and suicides.

When we review all of the wars we have participated in over the last seventy years, including in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America we have lost so many lives and spent billions of dollars on these wars. We have witnessed over this time so many people at home who have suffered and lost their loved ones.

On this day, especially on Memorial Day, our nation needs to rethink about the future of America and the rest of the world. We really need peace and not war.

In this coronavirus pandemic we have now lost more than six hundred thousand lives. The world is in a serious crisis. As human beings we need to help each other. We need to stop these senseless wars.