People or structures - which do you serve?

People or profits? People or things? People or power? People or structures? People or buildings? These have been choices of those who perform public service. The politician, the business person, the policeman, the soldier. Each is a person who serves and each must choose on a daily basis. Regularly each chooses to say one thing and do another. Police say they serve and protect people but they are really serving and protecting property. It's not too much of a conflict until the object of their violence becomes the subject of their purpose. Then the conflict is stark reality. But the years of saying one thing and doing another kicks in and the pattern rules supreme while the justifications kick in to cover the stark reality. Soldiers do not fight for anyone's freedom. They fight for everyone's oppression. They fight for their superiors' status quo. They are the hero when the powers deem it appropriate and they are the villains when the same power deems it appropriate. Have western powers who espouse individuality and capitalism ever thought it necessary to take care of soldiers after they are done soldiering? They may claim it and proclaim it but the reality is that more and more soldiers end up in poor houses, homelessness, and in paupers graves than in national cemeteries. Soldiers are dressed up and paraded off to war but must scrape and crawl coming back. Soldier, do you fight for the freedom of citizens to raise their voices for justice or do you serve the structures of injustice, in support of maintaining injustice for a little while longer? Because, like all unjust wars it cannot be won. Justice cannot be conquered, it can only be delayed. The voice of the people can be jailed and buried but it will never be silenced.