The Market Ticker - What They Died For Is Gone

We’ve had a lot of boys (and some girls) come home in boxes — and more than a few who there wasn’t enough left to send home at all.

It began with the War for Independence, when we told the British that “democracy” (there were more of them than us) wasn’t acceptable.  We insisted on a Republic, they said no, we shot them.

In the process more than a few nascent Americans died.

It didn’t end there, of course.

We had The War of 1812, a Civil War, The War to End all Wars, WWII (when the first one wasn’t the last) and a bunch of other conflicts, some of which people call war and some of which they don’t, since.

In all of them some of our people have either come home in boxes — or not at all.  Totaled up the count of killed and wounded run into the millions.

Through all of this and the years since we seem to have forgotten…….

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