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It’s astounding to me that anyone from the military still gets thanked for their “service.” You can trace the booms in white supremacy and Christian nationalism by U.S.-led wars going back to World War II. That is, pretty much every U.S. soldier born in the last 100 years. They don’t learn the racism out of thin air, they’re abusing people (see Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse). Afghanistan, Iraq, mercenary actions in South America in the 80s (which look familiar right now), Vietnam, Korea, World War II (internment camps for the Japanese) all led to increased white supremacy and violence. > Among adult active shooters in the United States from 2000 to 2013, for instance, nearly a quarter had some level of military experience, almost half of whom had served in the army. > > And in an assessment of fifty-two “lone offender” terrorists in the United States between 1972 and 2015, the FBI concluded that over a third had served in the military. > > These percentages are considerably noteworthy, given that only an estimated 7 percent of living Americans have served in the military. From God, Guns, and Sedition by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware. Nothing to see here, right? They’re fighting for “freedom.”