A SHORT BLOG FOR VETERANS' DAY
This will be the shortest blog I've yet posted. As we today observe Veterans Day, ostensibly commemorating the armistice that ended World War I on November 11, 1918 and veterans that have died in battle, but actually celebrates the glories of war, as prescribed by the government which could never, under either Party, pass up the opportunity to propagandize and proselytize for the notion of war as a sanctified necessity, I wonder each year if many others see the occasion for the obscenity it has become.
Today, I found a short poem written long ago by Rudyard Kipling, whose son died in that first great war to end all wars, which assured me he knew the true meaning and cause of war.
Wrote Kipling:
"If any question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied."
May Peace prevail on earth.
Today, I found a short poem written long ago by Rudyard Kipling, whose son died in that first great war to end all wars, which assured me he knew the true meaning and cause of war.
Wrote Kipling:
"If any question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied."
May Peace prevail on earth.
posted by david hoch at 8:06 AM
3 Comments:
Here, here!
The UK's Tony Mann said about war in his interview with Michael Moore: "If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help them."
His argument after World War II helped convince the UK to adopt a plan of "socialized" medical care:
"If you can have full employment by killing Germans, why can't you have full employment by building hospitals, building schools, and recruiting nurses and teachers...."
Sorry, Tony Benn, not Mann, of course, nevertheless, "A rose by any other name...."
As long as people like you and me continue to believe in peace, there is hope for the future. As Julian Bond once said when he spoke in Greensboro (in our other lives): "If the people who voted for wars had to fight them, we wouldn't have any."
My other concern: no stem cell research to find tests and cures for disease. Could the same idiot in the White House be responsible?
Aloha, Lisa
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