Happy Remembrance Day

[CJM]

i've been away all day, and it sucks that no one else made a thread at all...


but if you didn't, then definately take a moment to remember all those who sacrificed, and died, for your freedom.

[Justin]

word!!

[HEIRESS]

ok its creepy, I woke up on my own without an alarm like 1 minute before 11 am

so I clicked on the radio to CBC just in time to hear the whole ceremony thank god

jesus, I love bagpipes

and I also celebrated by watching "bridge over the river kwai"

oh and going to the mall and buying a bunch of shit I dont need but makes me feel better about my empty life

[CJM]

there's nothing more powerful then the pipes.

[na§tee]

i had a massive argument with my flatmate about this last night.

i bought a poppy and the services just happened to be on tv. i asked if she had bought a poppy. EXPLODING FLATMATE! she says it "glorifies war" and how it's "disgusting it's brought into a modern era" and how even people in world war two "had a choice and shouldn't have gone and killed people".

i was so fucking angry.
it doesn't fucking glorify war. if anything it sobs about how shitty and pathetic and unnecessary it is. it's a remembrance day, where you remember the people who have died/fought in these crappy wars. it doesn't matter if you have some high moral or personal ground. and i find it disgusting that she can say people actively had a choice in world war 2. for many people it was their fucking JOB. they have to do what they are told. how is joe bloggs who left school at 14 and had a young family to support and no skills.. how is he going to cope even if he opposes said war? be put into prison for being a conscientious objector? no. he's going to support his country. it's not down to morals or "the right thing".
and i find it so fucking presumptious that she can sit there, 26 years old and say that's it's disgusting to remember all these people who died so long ago for HER freedom. if it wasn't for them, i don't know what our country would be like now. she doesn't. i don't want to bring the whole iraq question into it, but i think it's terrible that she doesn't support a veteran's day or charity. she says she wouldn't give money to veterans because there are "a million other causes that deserve it more and don't get a day for it". ARGH! it's not about the x amount of other things you can give money to. and it's not about being proud about "killing some people" (she thinks the parades etc denote being proud of your actions". it's about REMEMBERING ALL THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DIED YEARS AGO SO YOU CAN SIT HERE IN THIS FLAT SPEAKING ENGLISH WITH YOUR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND CULTURAL FREEDOMS.

ARGH! :mad:

[Ally Al]

well said nastee (y)

[Nivvie]

REMEMBERING ALL THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DIED YEARS AGO SO YOU CAN SIT HERE IN THIS FLAT SPEAKING ENGLISH WITH YOUR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND CULTURAL FREEDOMS.

ARGH! :mad:


Yeah, fucking students.:D


I like the way poppies this year have sharp metal storks to negate the need for pins, and I'm re-reading Birdsong (cracking book btw). And I might have a Band Of Brothers marathon tonight.

On a side note, up here is land of the conscientious objector, many of which came up here to work on the farms and dodge service. I respect people who really did go through all the crap of standing before a board to explain their morals, and they often had to do really crappy things like body collecting and all the nastiest jobs on hospital trains, but so many of them just hid up here, and made a ton of money too. (many of which were gypies or 'tinks', so quite untraceable anyway)
Where I used to live, most kids grandfathers, mine included, were in the war, but it's quite weird how many in these few little towns, weren't.