Neo King Ghidorah Posted:

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They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon’s “For the Fallen”, Verses 3 and 4.

TUBSWEETIE Posted:

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but during the past week i’ve bought three poppies cause i keep losing them, and i think it’s important to think of both soldiers serving now and those that’ve served in the past.

none of my relatives went to the front, they were farmers and miners- but maybe i owe my life to them outliving the wars..

xxx

Inconnu Posted:

War is a terrible thing and has nothing to do festive celebrations, parades and fireworks or solemn threads. Please, don’t talk about war. Remember those who died, never enlist in military and vote the most pacifist politics you can. That’s pretty much all you can do for those, who died.

I agree with the first sentence. However, pacifist politics didn’t save Europe from certain tyranny twice. Pacifist politics doesn’t keep unseen wolves from the gates while you sleep in the naive confides of a warm bed. Pacifist politics doesn’t render aid and food and fight foreign oppressors all over the globe (and do so for the most part for genuinely thankful people who the media doesn’t show you because it’s not controversial enough to get good television ratings).

Pacifist politics says screw everyone else, let’s bend over with a kick me sign on and hope it all turns out ok. We leave in a dog-eat-dog world with two driving forces: money and power by force. No amount of idealistic misconceptions are going to prove that otherwise. You want peace? Well, there’s some very bad, very mean men out there with things that go boom who don’t want you to have that peace – pacifist politics doesn’t make them go away – meaner, badder, and boomier does.

Happy Veteran’s Day, Forumwarz.

Stupid Flanders

Seriously, though – right after the Fort Hood thing too. Sucks hard for the families of any victims, really.

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