war is a racket, it always has been.

That's a valid point of view. I happen to disagree, but probably not as broadly as you might expect...

Still, not on-point. Memorial day has nothing to do with glorifying war, but honoring the loss of men and women who died in the service of their country, whether you agreed with that country's aims or not, they were human beings and I think their passing deserves a moment. I also think that we should reserve a time on Labor day to honor those who died in poorly maintained sweat shops (the Triangle Factory Fire comes to mind though there are hundreds of such examples before and since, right up to the present day). That doesn't mean I'm suggesting that we glorify borderline slave-labor working conditions either.

we are flooded every day with veterans who care bout heir dogs, their kids, etc etc etc. The truth is...

The truth is that they are real people. Regardless of your politics, keeping the fact that those you disagree with and those who serve them are human beings is probably the single most important element of actually affecting any change, if that's your goal...

Hitler would have never risen to power if not for foreign investment. A lot of which was American.

I want sources for that. There were Americans who thought the National Socialists were right (and though the National Socialists were assholes of the highest order, it's easy to see why people were taken in... the Germans were in a shitty situation imposed mostly by France and England with the complicity of the US and the Nazis were promoting the idea that Germans could pull out of that imposed poverty and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps which speaks to a certain kind of Western independence-minded conservative).

But Hitler didn't rise to power due to funding. He rose to power because he was a powerful figurehead that the National Socialist Party could use to wedge itself into a position of authority. It was after Hitler was in power that foreign deals and efforts at appeasement allowed him to consolidate his invasion of Poland and the Reich's hold on German politics.

Kind of like ISIS, who wouldn't exist to day if not for American meddling in the middle east

ISIS is better compared to the initial rise of the National Socialists, not Hitler's takeover. Yes, the way we attempted to force Iraq and Afghanistan into Western modes of operation while simultaneously draining their economic resources was very similar to the early impact of the Treaty of Versailles, and had a religious fanatic insurgent movement risen in Germany instead of the National Socialists, the comparison would be perfect.

Absolutely ridiculous to think that there is any honour whatsoever in making war.

This I have to disagree with. Though we can argue that Hitler's rise to power was a soup of our own making, we cannot ignore the fact that a madman leading a regime of madmen was on the verge of anexing all of Europe. The war against the Third Reich was one of the handful of wars that I do think was justified and while the picture gets muddier when you try to include the Pacific theater in the analysis, this does not speak well to your absolutist view of war. War is a terrible and destructive force, and sometimes it's actually preferable to "think the unthinkable" than to execute a campaign of blood and death... but sometimes it's necessary.

Do you give a shit yet?

Sadly, I always have.