Ever wonder why the Viet Nam Memorial evokes such strong feelings from people? After all, it's just another war memorial, and not particularly esthetically pleasing or heroic in its presentation at that. Yet people are deeply moved when they are in its presence, and it has become a symbol of the transformation of all of humankind.
The reason is actually quite simple -- and extremely profound. For it is the Memorial for the War That Ended War. That war was the most grotesque, pointless, hideously horrendous, endless and dreadfully catastrophic war in its impact of all time. All who were involved -- whether by being there or by totally re-channeling their life by not being there -- were irrevocably transformed for life. And it all ended so ignominiously -- on that rooftop with the escape helicopter and the dumping of war equipment overboard at sea.
And for what? The war started shortly after World War II ended and it took some 25 years and untold human, ecological and economic disaster to find out that the whole thing was a ridiculous undertaking in the first place. It was an attempt to impose a patriarchal and Western way of life on a most unwilling Eastern culture, with cold war paranoia thrown in to really heat it up.
Furthermore, it was happening in a "baby soul" area of the world -- read that as primitive psychology, unrestrained fear, and the willingness to use the most extreme of tactics without hesitation. On top of which, it was a terrain and culture most unsuited to western style warfare. But we persisted all the way to the bitter end -- with totally predictable results.
A President and several others were assassinated, governments fell, and an entire generation was devastated by the effects of this war. Furthermore, all of the gory "glories" of this war were televised into everyone's living room or its equivalent throughout the latter period of the war. And the whole world watched as paranoid patriarchal decisions were made one after the other -- all without basis in fact or concern for the true nature of the situation. It was all on behalf of delusional conclusions and clever cover-ups, cons and connivances.
The Wall commemorates those whose bodies were in the counts. But what about those who disappeared from life without a trace -- the MIA's? Or those whose lives were devastated beyond belief by the aftermath of what they had to do to survive in that psychotic system and situation? Or those who came back -- to be reviled by the people who had sent them to their devastation? Or those whose lives were ripped apart by the moral dilemmas and pragmatic consequences involved in conscientiously objecting to or defecting from the war? Or those who lost their young men to the war or to the aftermath of the war? The list goes on.
To make matters worse, the paranoid patriarchy later turned a situation in the Middle East into a process to "stimulate the economy" and to "lift the morale" of the country, to "right our self-image" after that "humiliating defeat" -- as well as to "protect" our "oil rights". And it did so by massacring hundreds of thousands of retreating soldiers and destroying innocent civilian sites. Finally, after Israel warned the powers that be that if one more scud fell, they would nuke Baghdad, they turned it off like they had turned it on -- like a water faucet. And all this was done with a totally dominating media event manner of presentation that allowed no alternative point of view or any facts or questions to be brought up.
And yet the Wall draws people continuously, and with profound effects. It is of great and ironic significance that it was designed and executed by an Oriental Woman, not a paranoid patriarch. She managed to capture the true nature of the whole phenomenon. It is a War Memorial to end war. She brought out the true human and cosmic nature of that war, and she has precipitated an inexorable elevation of collective consciousness as a result.
It was the war that woke up the collective consciousness to the paranoid patriarchy's true nature and dimensions. It was the war that brought us to the inescapable impasse of having to "give it up". It brought on the ecological model of reality and the planetary consciousness. It made "human rights" the foundation of society. In other words, it started the evolution of human consciousness into cosmological, humane, integritous, committed and heart-centered manifestation.
And the people who participated in the Great Drama -- men and women, Western and Eastern, combatants and objectors, returnees and MIA's, and the friends and family of all involved -- all gave their all in one way or another to bring about this result. And their final great sacrifice was to undergo the mortification that greeted them when the war was over -- especially the combatants. And all have paid dearly for the remainder of their lives for what they gave for all of us.
In particular, the combatants who have to live with themselves in the resultants of the horrors in which they had to participate. The general pattern here is for them to try to "bury" it all in their unconscious, to try to forget and move on. But cosmic atrocities don't go away -- and that includes the atrocities perpetrated on them by their superiors and the situations they faced that gave them no choice but to become moral monsters -- and to live with that fact for the rest of their lives.
What all this sacrifice was for was to see to it that we terminate war as an instrument of policy or culture for once and for all. Now of course, more primitive cultures and more primitive minds will never even consider that possibility. But the collective consciousness of the world now demands it. And Somalia was the first indication of where it will go. For eventually the military is going to take its eons-long cumulative know-how to generate a cross between the Army Corps of Engineers and the Peace Corps. Thanks to the Nam Vets.
Hopefully, in time, the Nam Vets will wake up to the great contribution they have given with their huge sacrifices. Certainly we are -- as our response to the Wall shows. What they did was to say to the paranoid patriarchy -- "Up against the Wall, m----- f-----!". They did it in all manner of ways with all manner of motivations, but the bottom line was that they were selected by the "Home Office" to "bring it all home" and to "put an end to the whole damned thing" for once and for all. We owe them the profound respect and gratitude that their accomplishment deserves . . .
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