However valid the claims of oppression, Apartheid, etc., against the Palestinian people, Hamas’s October 7th attack, in which 1,163 Israelis were killed, many of whom were civilians, and 252 taken hostage, do constitute war crimes. As such, the Jus Ad Bellum criteria...
Memorial Day by Camillo Mac Bica
IntroductionPerhaps some may find what I will argue below as disrespectful, especially coming from a veteran who participated and lost comrades in the American War in Vietnam. But it must be said. How Memorial Day is currently observed does not, in my view, fulfill...
Vietnam Veteran by Camillo Mac Bica
You were conscripted against your will or convinced by lies and deceit that the threat to all you held sacred was real, and grave, and imminent.You believed that patriots must rally, sacrifice their life's plans and dreams, enlist in the military or submit to the...
‘Thank You for Saving My Son From All the Grief and Pain!’
I recently spoke at a conference sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers discussing the moral injury suffered by veterans returning from war. Other speakers included a clinician from the local Veterans Administration Medical Center, a woman Somali...