From Squeak's tumblr: Remembrance Day
"I think it is important to bear in mind that Remembrance Day is not about honouring anybody’s sacrifice or being grateful for people’s deaths; it is about remembering people who died and are dying and will go on dying, for no reason, with no glory, as long as war is a thing that happens.
It is about remembering them because there was no greater purpose to their having laid down their lives, and our remembering is the only thing even approaching a consolation that we can offer, besides our attempting to make sure it does not happen again."
tl;dr: It is not about thanking 'heroes' for 'fighting for freedom', today, guys. It is about war being a bad thing. Because war hurts people.
ETA: The Peace Pledge Union says some other stuff about this that is good.
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It is about remembering them because there was no greater purpose to their having laid down their lives, and our remembering is the only thing even approaching a consolation that we can offer, besides our attempting to make sure it does not happen again."
tl;dr: It is not about thanking 'heroes' for 'fighting for freedom', today, guys. It is about war being a bad thing. Because war hurts people.
ETA: The Peace Pledge Union says some other stuff about this that is good.
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