Lot’s of my grand relatives died in a WWII. My grand-grand dad was a guerrilla fighter. The other grand-dad nearly died and this experience affected him for the whole life. And some of my best friends died too or got permanent mental disorders in modern military incidents. One of them, really great guy and a good friend, served in Angola and Bosnia as a sniper. When he got back, he was totally unable to communicate. When we tried to comfort him, he went screaming and talking about exploding heads in optic visor he keeps seeing every day in his nightmares. He spent year or so all alone, and when he couldn’t deal with it anymore, he volunteered to Chechnya. He was killed after a week or so.

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.