JUST A THOUGHT - ON WHETHER WAR REMEMBRANCE DAY GLORIFIES OR REPUDIATES WARS. PART 2.
'No woman or man can truly die for another. By being placed in situations where we are forced to die, or to opt to die so that others might not, we simply buy them some time. As, eventually, we must all time.'
Or our 'freedom' from poverty, homelessness, diseases, or legal and viable means of support.
Are oftentimes bought at the price of the comparative 'oppression' and 'unfreeness' of others of our kind; other humans.
So, again, I pose the question: For what are we continuing to celebrate Remembrance Day.
When it is, or should be so obvious that we are not really 'honouring the dead', since the dead is incapable of appreciating being honoured?
And, if we are not doing it for the dead, then, for whom are we having these annual national celebrations?
Surely, it must be for us; the living. But what are we to make of it? What are the lessons which we should or might learn from this annual ritual?
Could it be that one lesson, is that we, the living, should learn the 'value of killing and dying for our country?'
But, is that lesson not compromised by another lesson, which we might and should learn from World Wars 1 and 2, and from all the other non-global wars since 1918 and 1947?
Which is that, wars are hell, and should be avoided at nearly all cost?
Yes, probably including the cost of 'not being free', at times. And, if that is a good lesson, does it not also question the value of having to kill and die for your/our country?
To be continued!
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