On Memorial Day, Americans honor the millions of soldiers who gave their lives in service to the country. But we shouldn’t only think about America’s dead soldiers once a year. The immense suffering both they and their families endured should cross our minds any time a warmonger suggests interventionism is a good idea.
Former Sen. John Glenn told his colleagues in 1997: ““It’s easy to see the flags flying and the people go off to war, and the bands play and the flags fly. And it’s not quite so easy when the flag is draped over a coffin coming back through Dover, Delaware.”
Journalists use the so-called Dover test, gauging public support for a military action after the first reports of the nation’s casualties, to determine whether U.S. leaders engaged the country in a popular war.
In recent history, Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush have all sought to avoid being subject to the Dover test by attempting to prohibit media coverage of returning war casualties.
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