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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest.

His name is Michael D. Knox.

He just published a book, January 2021.

Title of the book is Ending U.S. Wars by honoring Americans who Work for Peace.

I think it's a very important book, very timely book, considering recent events in Afghanistan.

And we're going to talk about the culture that leads to all of these foreign wars

and the U.S. wars that have been going on.

I think the United States has only had 22 years apiece since its foundation.

So we're going to talk about what leads to that.

But Dr. Knox can talk more about that. So Michael

Knox, are you there? Yes, I am. Thank you, William, for having me.

Yes, well, thanks for agreeing to the interview. For people who may not have heard your background

or this project that you have for a National Monument and the U.S. Peace Registry, can you talk about

your background and what led you to write the book ending U.S. Wars? Well, I'm by training a clinical psychologist, I worked as a professor

until I retired in 2011. And in 2005, I took my son, James, to Washington, and we visited the National Mall and saw a lot of the national monuments, which I'd seen many times, but I was conducting a tour basically as a tour guide and made me question things a little deeper.

And I began to realize that I was saying war monument after war monument after war monument

and even individuals who were depicted in statuary.

Often they were carrying a sword or a spear or bow and arrow or a pistol or some weapon.

And we could find nothing on the mall or any public property that related

to peace and to the courageous Americans who have worked for peace. And so I started thinking

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