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The signing of the armistice.
I go to the service for all the lost horses and dogs that died in WW1. There were hundreds of thousands. 80,000 horses went over from Australia alone, none returned.
I don't go for the soldiers.
The cult of soldiers-are-heroes that has infected society these days revolts me. You're not a hero until you have done something heroic. Going to war because it is a career or a lark or you were offered that or prison doesn't make you a hero. Particularly when it's on the whim of a government that should know better. Every month there's a new rape or violence case at our defence academies. These are the people we're sending out to warzones to protect women and children at risk, the ones no-one is watching out for. How do humans behave when they think they can get away with something, anything, everything? Ignore the propaganda and give kudos where it's due. No-one is automatically a hero. Being a hero is special - these people are the better part of humanity and what we should all be aiming for. That achievement should never be dimished by any propaganda.
The signing of the armistice.
I go to the service for all the lost horses and dogs that died in WW1. There were hundreds of thousands. 80,000 horses went over from Australia alone, none returned.
I don't go for the soldiers.
The cult of soldiers-are-heroes that has infected society these days revolts me. You're not a hero until you have done something heroic. Going to war because it is a career or a lark or you were offered that or prison doesn't make you a hero. Particularly when it's on the whim of a government that should know better. Every month there's a new rape or violence case at our defence academies. These are the people we're sending out to warzones to protect women and children at risk, the ones no-one is watching out for. How do humans behave when they think they can get away with something, anything, everything? Ignore the propaganda and give kudos where it's due. No-one is automatically a hero. Being a hero is special - these people are the better part of humanity and what we should all be aiming for. That achievement should never be dimished by any propaganda.
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Date: 2015-12-19 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-19 05:12 am (UTC)infamous skirmish on the Yangtze River that I mentioned, succumbed to an infection.Another rather famous cat, Mrs. Chippy, was the ship's cat on board the Endurance (yes, Shackleton's Endurance.) Shackleton ordered his crew to shoot Mrs. Chippy as well as the sled dogs after they had abandoned ship (the ship got caught in the ice surrounding Antarctica, ending up splintered and/or sunk from the massive ice.) Personally, I would have shot Shackleton for being such an inept jerk
but that's my humble opinion.There are/were hundreds more felines that went to sea, including one on the Titanic on its maiden voyage (there's debate about whether she was saved or if she went down with the ship.)
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Date: 2015-12-19 05:23 am (UTC)Humans are so good at using and discarding. =(