Samuel H. Day Jr. Quotes
If it is right to honor those who served in the cause of war, then it is equally right to honor those who served the cause of resistance to war.
Samuel H. Day Jr., 1927-2001, Journalist and Editor, Founder of Nukewatch, Memorial Day Newspaper Column, 2000
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While Queen Mary was presenting medals to British soldiers during World War I, she said this to a soldier who had exclaimed “No more bloody wars for me”.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Johnson was a leader of some members of Congress some of whom were extreme isolationists and some of whom were Nazi sympathizers and Hitler admirers. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor later that year, Germany, fulfilling its treaty with Japan, declared war on America, Johnson’s group no longer mattered. Before WWII most Republicans were opposed to Defense Spending and accused the Democrats of being war hawks. After WWII, they flip flopped and became more hawkish than the Democrats who they accused of being soft on defense for years thereafter. See {631380} for President Roosevelt’s different view.
This was Ford in the middle of his career. As he got older, he changed radically. He was later one of the biggest supporters and admirers of Adolf Hitler and his aggressive militarism.
Samuel H. Day Jr. was a nuclear activist, journalist, and champion of free speech. He served as managing editor of The Progressive and defended the publication in a controversial lawsuit that was spurred by US government entities asking The Progressive to not publish an article on social justice.
