The U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, after inciting disorder on Armistice Saturday, is about to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
I look forward to a humanity that can look back at all those who died in wars with the compassion of eyes that see all. Not only the courage, the suffering, the love, and self-sacrifice, but also the human delusion, the hatred, the exploitation, the arrogance, the deception, the greed, the cruelty, the ignorance, and hypocrisy. True compassion does not need to deny our human frailty, to feel for each other's pain and loss
I thought I'd start early on Remembrance Sunday and remember my grandfather who fought in WWII, before the sanitised patriotic pantomime begins at the Cenotaph that bears no resemblance to the reality of what people went through.
My grandfather came home from WWII, a broken man, bitter and angry. He never got over what he saw during the war. He couldn't hold down a job, was no good to anybody, and he made his wife and children's lives a misery. My grandmother would have divorced him if she could. He drank himself to an early grave, leaving a penniless widow with 7 children.
Still, he was a hero. This is what they looked like. If he doesn't fit today's narrative at the Cenotaph, fuck that narrative.
It's also worth mentioning my Dad today. He was a Military Carpenter for 20 years, and thankfully did no fighting, though he was trained to, but not once spoke of it.
He helped build housing on Military bases in Canada. Make no mistake, he served his country.
He passed in 2016.
RIP, Dad. I really miss you, love you, and I couldn't be more proud of you. #RemembranceDay
I really appreciate the Remembrance Day introductions before the game. Especially the piper playing "Amazing Grace", but I feel like they should play "Flowers of the Forest"!
Those soldiers didn't "give their lives for our freedom."
First, a huge number were conscripted, so those lives were taken, not given.
Second, that war was the result of rival colonial power building up gigantic war machines that they inevitably, eventually used against each other. There were no "good guys."
So when you think about #ArmisticeDay, think about NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN.
Sicherlich ist Olaf Schloz auch nicht ganz klar, was der britische #RemembranceDay und der US #VeteransDay sind. Beide eingeführt um der Toten und Versehrten eines von Deutschland zu verantwortenden Dauermordens von 1914 bis 1918 zu gedenken.
Nach 1945 ausgeweitet auf die durch wiederum deutsche Machtgier an der Front getöteten und verkrüppelten Soldaten.
Wofür brauchen wir das, um meines Grossvaters zu gedenken, der in der Ukraine an Massakern beteiligt war?