...whether a unit is local or traitors?

And I would rarely label troops serving in the US military under command as traitors. It would be way up the command structure.

...outside their own states, and on the streets working against people not engaged in armed conflict against a legally elected government -- they have a choice.

Many in LA chose to decline unlawful duties, and were reassigned. Someone choosing Trump over the Constitution, bearing arms against Americans? What's another word for that?

I don't think most more mature (30+ year old?) US citizens know the fundamental constitutional rights, let alone young people.

Another word/phrase? Ignorant"? "Just following orders"? Perhaps, sometimes "Complicit".

...old enough to read the Constitution.

Boston doesn't take kindly to occupying forces.

Comes to mind. Troops will not be welcome in Mass or Boston.

Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes. Rise, Minute Men!

As a child in elementary school in Massachusetts, our state and national history was a large part of our education. The role my home state played in the start of the foundation of our country was always emphasized. I like to say, in my older years, we started the United States with the bravery of our citizens to defy the British Crown and the rest of our country, too scared to oppose or were supportive of the crown, are a bunch of chicken shit gravy trainers. We took the hit. The rest of YOU enjoy the benefits of our independent country because of what we did. The Worcester resistance, the Boston Massacre, the Tea Party resistance to outrageous taxation, Paul Revere's ride, The Bunker Hill monument, Lexington and Concord, the USS Constitution, four of our first presidents were from my state. So much history that was imbedded into us as children and about our part in the beginnings of our country. The pride I feel when I think of these men and their times. Massachusetts has an absurd balance of riches in our democracy. However, there are so many traitors from so many areas of our country that have no INVESTMENT in the actual historical beginnings of our country and are willing to destroy it. They come from those states that never were involved in the sacrifice of life, liberty and property that these people suffered. They now live with a government that used to help them prosper and expand, but now, they want to destroy the very government that has allowed them to thrive, until now. They have the government they voted for. Now they are afraid. Of what? They have what they wanted. Enjoy. They pay lip service homage to our real PATRIOTS. The ones that actually pledged their life, liberty and property to the new republic. Now we have whiners.

I'm a native Kansan... and ya know, we didn't get anywhere near anything like that, although I would have said I got a decent education with reference to what is offered today. I don't remember hearing anything about John Brown, except maybe in passing, in class. And it wasn't until I started researching and reading on my own that I learned of the Underground Railroad close to where I lived a few years ago in KcK.

I lived in Lawrence and was steeped in the John Brown and Quantrill's Raiders lore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantrill%27s_Raiders, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Massacre, etc. )

Oddly enough, I also lived outside of Harper's Ferry, WV where John Brown met his demise. And in the Adirondacks where his body was finally laid to rest. Just stopped by his grave site outside of Lake Placid.

Dad in the Navy based at NAS Olathe KS. We were there in the mid 60's late 60's. Nothing there then, now subbies all over the place. Kansas was a by way in life for me, only three years there, seventy two now.

It amazes me how this is true wherever I've lived or worked throughout the US and the world.

People don't want to revisit the past, especially if it is too fresh - such as within the last 100-200 years. Oklahoma, just south of Kansas, has a huge amnesia about the massacre of the black population during the Tulsa Race Massacre. I'm sure there are hundreds of similar events that are conveniently forgotten.

Other horrors have existed throughout the world (and continue.) And if the ruling class has its way, the histories will be silenced.

And it is ongoing in all of the US of A, right now.

I never heard anything about the Tulsa Race Massacre until someone educated people here at DU. I've learned a lot more history on DU than I ever did in school, I swear! And, like I said, I think I had a decent education. It was before the "new methods" in teaching started taking hold. I did miss out on a lot of "alternative" classes; we didn't have those, except for either shop for boys or home economics for girls. Both genders could forgo the sexist alternatives and take Distributive Ed (learning in an office or retail environment).

But I hear today about kids being offered class in psych, comparative religion, comparative literature, not to mention the plethora of STEM subjects and I'm jealous. We had none of that back in my day. Of course, if it's all draped in anti-woke, nazi americanization politics and extremist christian fervor, it'll probably have lost any advantage it once gave students. Luckily, all my kids and grandkids are out of school now. But I don't like where my tax dollars are going!