11:11 11/11 and a very moving commentary.

[lavenderjones]

Remembrance Day, or, I think, 'Veteran's Day' in the US, seems to be nearly forgotten now that time has passed. I have two WWII Servicemen in my family who are still alive: my Uncles Stan and Charlie. Uncle Charlie is somewhere in the bowels of California and hasn't been seen by us since 1975, and Stan is in Quebec - he visits a few times a year. I don't even know what they did, an I've decided to email Stan to ask him. My paternal grandfather was a Gunner in WWI and took part in things in WWII as well, although it was on this side of the world. I'm proud of him and his brothers and all my other relatives who took part in those wars and in other wars - my great grandfather won 2 medals in the Fenian Wars back in the 1860's, I even have a photo from that time period - they all worked for peace among the nations. I'm even proud of the poor soldiers who fight now for what they believe in - or what they are told they believe in, but I don't GET war. I don't understand why it has to be the road to make things better. I don't understand how fighting something across the water has to make us feel safer and I don't get why we have to go over there and get involved with things that will stir up more trouble. I'm not saying that what has been done isn't beneficial, but I have enough peacekeeper in me that I cry for the losses on all sides because that's what we were supposed to be trying to avoid and abolish in the first place.

I wonder what this day will be like in 2011?

This is thanks to sisterred:

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