Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Whereas Revolutionary soldier Joseph Martin wrote in the winter of 1777 at Valley Forge, “We were absolutely, literally starved…I do solemnly declare that I did not put a single morsel of victuals into my mouth for four days and as many night, except a little black birch bark which I gnawed off a stick of wood,”(1) when Specialist Aaron Collette returned to Bend, Oregon after serving in Iraq for two years he found that his home had been foreclosed on and bought by a bank. Both events are symbolic of how financial institutions and ruling elites take advantage of U.S. troops and become even more wealthy times of war. It also reveals how the…
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