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Veterans Day celebrates the veterans of the US armed forces. Which although includes those who served in WW2, they are still a minority. US armed forces are not simple workers, they work directly to enable imperialism and the current state of affairs.
They also kill a lot of innocents, not for defence, but for US interests. Which I think is not good.
Of course it's not good. There are numerous industries employing workers that produce a lot of innocent deaths domestically and abroad. The vast majority of people working for them are forced to do so by the capitalist system. Most workers in capitalism don't have the luxury of turning down jobs on ethical basis because often the alternative is destitution. Assigning moral blame to workers in such industries plays into the capitalist individualist myth that workers have the freedom to work any job, to refuse the jobs they don't like. And that's anti-materialist, and I think not a productive thing to do. I'd build solidarity and class consciousness instead since that's the only way to stop the gears of the people-crushing machine from turning.