MillRatUSMC
10-06-04, 05:46 PM
After being at the Community Veterans Memorial, I was thinking;
What are War Memorials or Memorials really for?
While researching I found these...
War Memorials
Humans are constantly conflicted between the desire to forget their dark moments and the need to remember them.
Generally the former wins.
From a page on the web by Linda Schrock Taylor;
http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor67.html
Yes, flags will be at the graves of each man and woman who "served our country in its time of need." My father always phrased it that way. I held my tongue, even as my mind prodded me to cry out, "You were used as a pawn! A pawn in a gigantic worldly game of very powerful chess! You were a dispensable game piece, of limited value, to be pushed around the board within agreed upon parameters." I never said it so bluntly, for the mere hint of such a discussion caused my father to take a most defensive stance. He had no choice but to protect himself. It would have destroyed him to admit that he had been used, and had then spent fifty years celebrating his own bondage and the violation of his personhood and the warping of his entire outlook and life.
Wars, on the other hand, are devious courses of action; secretive plans purposely designed to rob citizens: of freedoms and rights; of production and financial rewards; of savings and investments; of sons and daughters; of peaceful lifetimes and restful sleep.
What's scare's me, she's a teacher...
I hope that she is wrong, that we're just pawns in bondage, who's outlook of life has been warp by what we expierenced in a war.
Might Fred Reed been correct, that a better memorial would be a big hand with the middle finger sticking up in the air.
Telling the world were to go with thier memorials.
In all fairness, better some memorials than none at all.
If we forget those that died fighting or in a war from other causes.
Than they will surely be dead.
We honor thier memory and the thought they they once walked among us as part of this great Nation.
Days I've gone there, I seen young mothers and fathers with thier young viewing and sometimes on the exhibits of this memorial.
My thoughts;
This is what this memorial is all about; to show and educated those that follow us, what we did and how we conduct ourselves in times of danger...not as pawns in bondage but as free men and women trying to fight and uphold the goodness of this Nation.
Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi
Ricardo
What are War Memorials or Memorials really for?
While researching I found these...
War Memorials
Humans are constantly conflicted between the desire to forget their dark moments and the need to remember them.
Generally the former wins.
From a page on the web by Linda Schrock Taylor;
http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor67.html
Yes, flags will be at the graves of each man and woman who "served our country in its time of need." My father always phrased it that way. I held my tongue, even as my mind prodded me to cry out, "You were used as a pawn! A pawn in a gigantic worldly game of very powerful chess! You were a dispensable game piece, of limited value, to be pushed around the board within agreed upon parameters." I never said it so bluntly, for the mere hint of such a discussion caused my father to take a most defensive stance. He had no choice but to protect himself. It would have destroyed him to admit that he had been used, and had then spent fifty years celebrating his own bondage and the violation of his personhood and the warping of his entire outlook and life.
Wars, on the other hand, are devious courses of action; secretive plans purposely designed to rob citizens: of freedoms and rights; of production and financial rewards; of savings and investments; of sons and daughters; of peaceful lifetimes and restful sleep.
What's scare's me, she's a teacher...
I hope that she is wrong, that we're just pawns in bondage, who's outlook of life has been warp by what we expierenced in a war.
Might Fred Reed been correct, that a better memorial would be a big hand with the middle finger sticking up in the air.
Telling the world were to go with thier memorials.
In all fairness, better some memorials than none at all.
If we forget those that died fighting or in a war from other causes.
Than they will surely be dead.
We honor thier memory and the thought they they once walked among us as part of this great Nation.
Days I've gone there, I seen young mothers and fathers with thier young viewing and sometimes on the exhibits of this memorial.
My thoughts;
This is what this memorial is all about; to show and educated those that follow us, what we did and how we conduct ourselves in times of danger...not as pawns in bondage but as free men and women trying to fight and uphold the goodness of this Nation.
Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi
Ricardo