
I have long had an agreement with my wife that if by some chance I die while doing Army stuff, she is to stop the military from naming anything after me. Once in Ft. McCoy, Wis. I came across some out-of-the-way secondary entrance to that hell hole named for a fallen Pfc. and it was one of the most depressing things I saw during my career.
Little did I know something worse could be created. The above is a picture I took at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. A Global War on Terrorism memorial (a war still going, I'll add) for Missourians which looks like it was created by a conservative intern with a Photoshop trial, a couple monster energy drinks, and their favorite Rick and Morty episodes ready to go.
Historically, Jefferson Barracks is one of the oldest internment sites for veterans. Soldiers have trained there for every war since the Mexican American war and still do to this day. It has a nice park, a VA hospital, Civil war and Telephone museums. Hell, you can even get a picture with a tank

But this...thing of a memorial. This patriotic tank-top engraved into marble for millions of dollars is truly the war memorial we deserve. A unending war, built on a series of lies, never killing enough Americans for us to give a shit, but constantly bloating the military budget every year. A memorial that plasters the faces of some of the fallen and leaves room for more faces (in an equally tacky design)
