Our highest political loyalty must be to our one Human Family. World community, with laws to benefit all human lives and our global environment, eliminates the need for national security and militaries. To kill our fellow humans is neither glorious nor necessary. The central function of militarism is to kill and destroy. This is the only function of the weapons wielded by soldiers.
Militaries kill more non-combatants than they kill other soldiers.
The military uniform symbolizes death and destruction, not glory. Refusal to be recruited or conscripted into a military is a mark of courage and caring. While addictive drugs are extremely harmful, all weapons, from handguns and rifles to warplanes and battleships, are even more so and are also to be despised and shunned. Teach our children to join in no religious rituals that tend to sanctify a nation. Teach our children not to glorify any national flag.