Home is not only where you were born, and Home is not only where you grew up, and Home is not only where your family lives, and Home is not only where you feel most comfortable … No, my Friends, HOME is where your Heart resides — in every task you engage fully present, in every thought you ponder with gratitude, in every belief you intone with humility, in every interaction you infuse with Kindness … HOME is where you are when you are acting as your True Self — your Compassionate Self; your Humble Self; your Forgiving Self; your Loving Self.

As such, this Memorial Day I call for us ALL to help bring the world’s soldiers HOME.

*I call all soldiers who were in combat in the past to come HOME by actively atoning for all violence that was done … and to forgive yourself while doing so.

*I call all soldiers who currently are in combat now to come HOME by putting down your weapons and refusing to fight anymore.

*I call all of us who are not soldiers to help the aforementioned to come HOME by reaching out to them with forgiveness & compassion — by offering them jobs as they abandon their military orders; by offering them clothes as they abandon their military uniforms; by offering them places to rest & reside as they abandon their military barracks; by offering them tasks of community service as they abandon their military tasks of death & destruction.

*And I call all would-be soldiers — all those young men & women who are considering joining the military to “fight for their country” — to come HOME by not doing so.

My Friends, no matter what our war-mongering “leaders” or our non-peaceful pastors say to the contrary, we humans are ALL one Family — every American, every Afghani, every Christian, every Muslim; every member of every nation & every member of every faith … Many of us have forgotten this fact (it is, after all, a fact so easy to forget) — and yet a fact it remains … And it is high-time for us to remember it anew … And it is high time for us to act accordingly.

Essentially, my dear Friends, it is high time for ALL of us to finally come HOME.

Amen … Let it be so.

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ~ Mark Twain

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” ~ Howard Zinn

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but there are none worth killing for.” ~ Albert Dietrich

“Never think that war, no matter how ‘necessary’, nor how ‘justified’, is not always a crime.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” ~ John Steinbeck

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ~ Sun Tzu

“War is over … If you want it.” ~ John Lennon

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