Will we really remember?

Posted on | November 9, 2009 | 325No Commentshttp://www.laaneloves.com/?p=325Will+we+really+remember%3F2009-11-09+01%3A06%3A16Laane

poppycat-viremem I’m always very touched during remembrance days.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s at my own country or at TV in the UK, as I saw this weekend.

I’m not quite sure why I’m touched, because the people I see are unknown to me.
But the tears on the face of an old veteran because he couldn’t save his friend when they were 19 reach deep in my soul.

I know my father waited for his friends to return from their flights far inside europe during WW2, and a few times I’ve seen the tears of those who waited in vain in his eyes and some of his collegues.

His army chaplain told me far more my father ever could.
He said he’d never figured out which was worse: young people dying in war, or young people returning home from war.

It’s a pity he doesn’t live anymore.
I have an answer, to his question.

What’s worse is young people going to war.
Young promising people, who trust humanity, and who leave their family and friends behind, or even their own partner and children.
They have to fight the war of others, have to solve the mistakes of others, have to kill in the name of others.

And they’ll always remember the fear, and all those other feelings young people shouldn’t experience.

Some countries call them heroes.
It’s putting them far away from normal people, it’s like saying: don’t tell me what happened, because I won’t understand.

I wonder what we have learned from WW2.
I wonder if we’ll ever learn?

How can we tolerate sending young people to war?

Last week an archeologist was telling how important human sacrifice was for the ancient south american people.
When I asked him what his real feelings were, he said he thought it not human, criminal.

I didn’t ask how he felt about sending his own son into war, because I didn’t want him to remember that moment when he said that he didn’t understand parents sacrificed their children to the Gods.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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