Subject: OT: Remembrance
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Posted on: 2023-11-11 20:16:04 UTC
Perhaps I misunderstood.
Perhaps they were never memorials to futile deaths
But monuments to glorious warriors.
Perhaps I was naïve.
Perhaps war is justified
And death is justified
And killing and killing and killing is justified.
Perhaps I am a romantic.
But when we said 'never again'
I thought we meant it.
hS
In Britain, at least, and I think most of Europe, that's Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day, which started as a way to remember how gut-wrenchingly horrific the First World War was, and how we never wanted to see its like again.
The UK government is currently declaring it's about British Values instead.
hS
Mother's Day in the US grew out of a women's peace movement in response to the American Civil War, recognizing the destruction of families on both sides and encouraging reconciliation. (See particularly: Mother's Day Proclamation.) It failed to gain traction until it was pitched as a day for each family to honor their mother, instead.
Not that we shouldn't do that. But the anti-war thing is also important.
~Neshomeh