Veteran Voices
Jun 13, 2025
By Gretchen Klingler On Saturday, Veterans for American Ideals will join democracy minded organizations and individuals to support the No Kings Day protests—not because we oppose celebrating America’s Armed Forces, but because we believe so strongly in our nation’s ideals that we volunteered to protect and promote them at home and abroad. We continue to […]
Jul 20, 2020
In his first inaugural address, at the start of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living […]
Nov 18, 2020
For years, I misunderstood the Constitutional Oath which I regularly retook as a U. S. Marine. In fact, for a long time, I missed the point entirely. What did pretty words about freedom and democracy have to do with me? I was a member of a highly disciplined organization that frankly dealt in violence. It […]
Jun 23, 2020
How many crises must the U.S. deal with at once? As a nation, we have been forced to simultaneously protect our citizens from disease, economic degradation, restrictions on their individual rights, and the largest societal upheaval in a generation. On top of all of that, can we really be expected to worry about immigrants, asylum […]
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