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RE: Victory Day Russia - Children's View
Thank you for sharing these stories from the children's conversations! I'm really impressed by the importance their parents and grandparents place on never forgetting...I really wish Americans were more like this!
Yes, if we look at American history, we have had a war about every decade since our existence except twice. Immediately following the Revolutionary War and for nearly 40 years following the Civil War. Interesting that the public was against war for extended periods of time after it took place on their soil.
It is an absolute shame that we don't spend more than "a moment of silence" to contemplate the losses of life given in places nobody knows or can pronounce for reasons we don't understand and to no general benefit of the American people.
My Grandfathers knew why they were fighting the Japanese Empire, but my cousin has no idea what the fuck he is still doing in Fallujah. Perhaps if we spent a day every year remembering the importance of what our veterans have done and why, we would be less interested or supportive of putting the lives of our men and women at risk for things that have little or no bearing on the American people.
Just a thought.
This whole comment is so well put.
That is incredibly poignant, and tragic, at the same time!
What makes me upset is that supposedly we have days to do that--and they've just been turned into sales events, like every other holiday. It's upsetting to me to see the actual meanings and points of holidays and days of remembrance obscured by consumerism :( "We watch it happen 'over there' / and then just turn it off" and go shopping...
This is one of the main reasons that I love Victory Day in Russia. Everyone participates or relaxes. They aren't out shopping (except to buy hats, ribbons and flags). Meanwhile, they have military parades with a military that is AT HOME and not off in some obscure place fighting "terrorism".