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A very well written piece entitled War Is Betrayal, by Chris Hedges, from July 01, 2012, on the Boston Review website. Link to the whole article is HERE.

Excerpt from the article, quoting Jessica Goodell in her 2011 book,
Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq:
“In a poignant passage, she talks about what it was like for her and a
fellow Marine named Miguel to come home and see all those yellow
ribbons:

We’d frequently pass vehicles displaying the yellow ribbon ‘support-our-troops decal,’ but we never once mentioned it. We probably passed a
hundred or more decals—two hundred if you count the multiple decals
decorating the cars of the more patriotic motorists—and yet neither of
us even once said, ‘Look, more support from the citizenry. Let’s give
the ‘thumbs up’ as we pass.’ . . . I knew that these people on their way
to work or home or dinner had no idea what it was they were supporting.
They did not have a clue as to what war was like, what it made people
see, and what it made them do to each other. I felt as though I didn’t
deserve their support, or anyone’s, for what I had done. . . . No one
should ever support the people who do such things.”