Comments on: Remembrance Day

By: puurri

puurri — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:33:56 +0000

Back on topic. Read Bruce Scates for the real deal.

And note that waltzing matilda is a corruption of “waltzen Mathilde” the German custom of a freshly minted tradesman taking his blankets and seeking work across the country

By: Dina

Dina — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:56:02 +0000

Clif,

When I said I was taking a moment to commemorate, it was to commemorate…not to target you for your wording, which was fine, actually. I just wanted to commemorate. I think the war-fallen everywhere feel you have sufficiently respected them.

By: Clif

Clif — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:22:15 +0000

Thanks D. That is what I tried to mean by simply writing “fallen” … Perhaps I should have been more explicit.

By: Dina

Dina — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:08:53 +0000

Since it’s still Veteran’s Day here (though not quite the 11th hour), I’d like to take a moment not only to commemorate the war-fallen, but to all those who are currently enduring the hellish conditions that wars are directly infliciting upon them, be they soldiers, civilians, refugees, nurses, children, family members, plants, animals, or particles of air and water.

I’d also like to take a moment to remember those who have “fought” peaceful wars and inspired us to think outside the framework of military regimes, and gave their lives doing so…Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., and so many other sung and unsung heroes and martyrs of our time whose legacies, I hope, live on in our conscious actions for a better world.