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Subject: Remembering and understanding.

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Ed Harris (Venezia)

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Date Posted: 18:31:44 11/15/04 Mon
In reply to: A 's message, "Remembering, but learning?" on 18:25:16 11/15/04 Mon

We remember them because walking back up Whitehall after the Service there are no swastikas flying from the government buildings, entirely owing to their sacrifices.

Whether or not we think that more recent wars are as noble or as just - and I accept that many think quite the opposite - that is the responsibility of the politicians and in no way diminishes the privations and suffering which our soldiers and sailors voluntarily undergo for our country.

Remembrance, perhaps, doesn't 'achieve' anything, but that is not the point. It is a mark of respect for the individuals who serve, not a gesture of solidarity with the politicians who direct their service.

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Date Posted: 19:22:28 11/15/04 Mon

I've always seen remembrance as respectful of the dead, but I really have to say that such services seem to be drafted in to glorify things they should have no part in... modern things.

That the Allies and Germans didn't learn from WWI was proven in WWII.

That we didn't learn from the brutality of WWII is still being proven.

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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:22:31 11/15/04 Mon What is your point, A? That we should abolish remembrances until there is universal peace? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]