The VFW? Well, most veterans of foreign wars went abroad as obedient servants of the government doing the bidding of the administration. However there are some veterans of foreign wars who went at private expense, not taxpayers expense, and they fought for freedom against Fascism while the FDR administration was still all buddy-buddy cozy with Hitler and Mussolini. One third of them gave their lives. The veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade deserve honor. They had convictions, acted on them, and paid their own way. As for the hundreds of bases abroad today where our military is used to try to control affairs outside our borders, they should all be brought home. Let the rest of the world defend itself. Or not. It's their choice. America first.

The 1973 Humanist Manifesto has been quoted with some errors although the gist of it is intact. However, that is NOT the current Humanist Manifesto but is obsolete. The Humanist Manifesto applicable at this time is Humanist Manifesto 3, of 2003, available on line at www.AmericanHumanist.org