Will Future Veterans Day Ceremonies Honor Service For Mass Deportations & Civil Rights Violations?

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​*Today is Veterans Day. 

Will there be parades in the future for the veterans who helped conduct mass deportations?

​Donald Trump says he'll use the Alien Enemies Act from 1798 to help round-up immigrants.   

Today Trump appointed Stephen Miller to be his deputy chief of staff.   

From CNN:

"Miller is also a lead architect of Trump’s plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. He has said that a second Trump administration would seek a tenfold increase in the number of deportations to more than one million per year."

Many Americans support putting migrants scheduled to be deported in militarized camps.  

From Axios:

By the numbers: 50% of Americans surveyed oppose setting up encampments for undocumented immigrants, while 47% favor the idea, according to the annual survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), in partnership with the Brookings Institution.

Nearly 79% of Republicans favor putting undocumented immigrants in encampments, compared with 47% of independents and 22% of Democrats.

The vast majority of Americans who most trust far-right news (91%) or Fox News (82%) favor militarized encampments for undocumented immigrants, compared with 44% of Americans who do not watch TV news.

Concerns about the uses of the military under Trump go beyond the prospect of deportations.

Military officials are concerned Trump will use the military against domestic protestors.     

Will future Veterans Day observations honor veterans of attacks on the civil liberties of Americans? 

It's not militarism or forgetting full American history to say there are proud traditions of service and sacrifice in our nation.

How have we so completely lost our way?     

*My father-Corporal Anthony S. Aquino of Providence, R.I.-was a Korean War combat medic.

Above is a picture of the Korean War Memorial I took in Washington, D.C. this past July.

Trump often says good things about the North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un.

North Korean troops are fighting on the side of Russia in the war with Ukraine. Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, is one of new co-presidents here in the United States along with Elon Musk.

This coddling up to the murderous North Korean dictator spits on the service of my father, and on the service of everyone who fought the Nazis and the confederacy.              

This is no surprise from someone who called our troops "suckers and losers." 

How have we so completely lost our way? 

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