Rememberance day.
Nov. 11th, 2005 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueToday is rememberance day.
On the radio this morning, I heard that some people were refusing to wear a red poppy, because it was a militaristic symbol.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
On this day, in 1918, at 11am, the guns stopped.
We remember those that fought and died. Not because of what they did. Not because the killed. But because they were faced with the greatest sacrifice of all. To fight. To kill. And to die. So that others might live their lives in peace and freedom.
We remember this, not to glorify war. We honour those that fell. And we remember so we might not repeat the mistakes of the past.
To remember that war always comes at too high a price.
Sometimes freedom is dearly bought.
On the radio this morning, I heard that some people were refusing to wear a red poppy, because it was a militaristic symbol.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
On this day, in 1918, at 11am, the guns stopped.
We remember those that fought and died. Not because of what they did. Not because the killed. But because they were faced with the greatest sacrifice of all. To fight. To kill. And to die. So that others might live their lives in peace and freedom.
We remember this, not to glorify war. We honour those that fell. And we remember so we might not repeat the mistakes of the past.
To remember that war always comes at too high a price.
Sometimes freedom is dearly bought.
