Think about someone you love. You sister, your brother, even your mother or father. Think about your favourite person in the whole world. Now, think about how much you love them. How they've shaped you and impacted your life.
Imagine a person. Any kind of person that you'd see walking down the street. You might give them a small smile or a nod, but you'd never really talk to them. They're strangers, you know nothing about them. So, how could you have any resentments towards them?
Imagine losing your loved one. The feeling of loss and grief taking over you in huge waves of depression and doubt. The despair of not having them with you.
People feel that loss every day. That stranger you imagined could feel that loss. You don't know.
War is what creates that feeling of loss, despair, doubt and grief. War is what kills thousands of people every day. People with thoughts. With a voice, with feelings. People like you, like your loved ones.
Remembrance Day was designed to pay respects to those have died because of war. To remember the sacrifices people made for their country, family and friends. Sadly, it's going further from what it was designed for. Remembrance Day is becoming something of a hallmark day. It promotes war, almost as much as the propaganda from World War 2. It glorifies the deaths that we face. It makes it seem good or beautiful.
By glorifying war, you're glorifying the loss of loved ones. War isn't something beautiful, or amazing. War is disgusting, with people killing people in cold blood without thinking twice. War has to be eradicated.
Remembrance Day is about remembering the loss and the sacrifice. Stop using it to make war "beautiful". War is terrible.
Imagine a person. Any kind of person that you'd see walking down the street. You might give them a small smile or a nod, but you'd never really talk to them. They're strangers, you know nothing about them. So, how could you have any resentments towards them?
Imagine losing your loved one. The feeling of loss and grief taking over you in huge waves of depression and doubt. The despair of not having them with you.
People feel that loss every day. That stranger you imagined could feel that loss. You don't know.
War is what creates that feeling of loss, despair, doubt and grief. War is what kills thousands of people every day. People with thoughts. With a voice, with feelings. People like you, like your loved ones.
Remembrance Day was designed to pay respects to those have died because of war. To remember the sacrifices people made for their country, family and friends. Sadly, it's going further from what it was designed for. Remembrance Day is becoming something of a hallmark day. It promotes war, almost as much as the propaganda from World War 2. It glorifies the deaths that we face. It makes it seem good or beautiful.
By glorifying war, you're glorifying the loss of loved ones. War isn't something beautiful, or amazing. War is disgusting, with people killing people in cold blood without thinking twice. War has to be eradicated.
Remembrance Day is about remembering the loss and the sacrifice. Stop using it to make war "beautiful". War is terrible.