Subject: Err, what is this in relation to? (nm)
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Posted on: 2023-11-11 20:23:13 UTC
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OT: Remembrance by
on 2023-11-11 20:16:04 UTC
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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
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Err, what is this in relation to? (nm) by
on 2023-11-11 20:23:13 UTC
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It's 11 November. by
on 2023-11-11 21:11:49 UTC
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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
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This puts me in mind of what happened to Mother's Day. by
on 2023-11-13 19:55:57 UTC
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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