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President Eisenhower warned us against the emerging military industrial complex that would turn us into an imperium. My uncle's thousand days in office were a constant fight to keep the country out of war. They tried to trick him into the Bay of Pigs invasion, but he refused to send in the military. He realized he'd been tricked and later fired those involved in the deception.
They tried to get him to invade Laos, Cuba, and Berlin, but he wouldn't. In Vietnam, he only sent advisors, but when he found out about the casualties, he ordered everyone home. Thirty days after signing that order, he was murdered. Johnson then reversed the order and sent in troops.
These traumas, including my uncle's death, pushed us down the road Eisenhower warned against. Today, we are the military industrial complex, and nobody believes their voices are heard in Washington. To go back to our original idealism, we must look at the original trauma and expose what happened to my uncle.