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⌈ Secret Post #2771 ⌋

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Probably another midnight day at work. Sorry again.

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Comments

Re: Start of WWI commemorations

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. It's all over the radio here already, given that Memorial Day was only a month ago. There is a guy here who wants to get 801 people together to lay a wreath for each name at Beaumont Hamel, two years from now, which will be the hundredth anniversary of that battle.

I get that it's important to remember the Great War because never again etc. (even though it did happen again) but there is a fine line between remembrance, and wishing for peace, and glorifying war...which some people SAY they aren't doing, but their actions suggest otherwise. *cough*Tories*cough*

I don't know where that fine line is, though, and the stuff I do want to read about, like the Anabaptists and other Peace churches who ran ambulance services, built roads and other infrastructure on the home front, etc., are few, and in very short supply, because everyone else wants to ruminate on the actual fighting and death and not the rest of it. And some people, especially in today's political climate, write off these people as cowards.

TL;DR: Pacifist anon is conflicted about the commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of WWI.

Re: Start of WWI commemorations

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, I sort of get that.

With me, especially for more recent wars, I also have this discrepancy about how I feel about the war and people fighting.I mean, obviously you can have some asshole soldiers - but I see most of them as too-young kids shipped off as canon fodder. So, even if I might be against a war, it sort of bothers me if people hate on individual soldiers.

But yeah, it's a fine line between commemorating and glorifying.