tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834395892091327520.post3701676264914214285..comments2023-12-10T08:09:17.786+00:00Comments on Large blooming flower: Remembrance dayJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08027942517258679266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834395892091327520.post-50794208189072491912015-11-28T22:37:22.033+00:002015-11-28T22:37:22.033+00:00I spent this lunchtime at an anti-war protest, ove...I spent this lunchtime at an anti-war protest, over the likely Syria bombing. Plus ca change.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027942517258679266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834395892091327520.post-12752068427145522712015-11-10T21:12:39.260+00:002015-11-10T21:12:39.260+00:00Well said, I am of the generation whose parents fo...Well said, I am of the generation whose parents fought in the second war and grand parents in the first, and then lost friends in the Falklands and the first Iraq war.<br /><br />I was brought up with the idea that we remembered everybody who lost their lives in war, we remembered so that we would not walk that path again.I too suspect that we have forgotten what we truly owe those generations, remembrance without action is meaningless.Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577631984995202146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834395892091327520.post-85614367060059206012015-11-09T21:53:18.213+00:002015-11-09T21:53:18.213+00:00Yes. I concur.
I find the current move to somehow...Yes. I concur.<br /><br />I find the current move to somehow equate poppy-wearing with the stars'n'stripes lapel pin in the States to be almost ghoulish. And the sudden appropriation of Remembrance as some kind of 'Celebration' as warped.<br /><br />I was never lucky enough to talk to many veterans in person, but I have read their accounts and I attempt to teach something of the time in my own professional life. No, it wasn't all blood and slaughter but nor was it Commando comics and Ripping Yarns and Victor and Action!<br /><br />I once, regrettably, got angry with a friend of mine for their suggestion that we ought not to remember Armistice as the First World War was such an awful thing. In their own, slightly prepubescent and confused, way they were seeing the stirrings of the current, almost joyful, triumphalism of Remembrance. I'm not saying we should end it, but I am saying that the mood is tilting away from the purpose.<br /><br />In short: yes, I agree.Joanna Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03765570687013090805noreply@blogger.com