bit of a somber one sorry...
seems to me that people dont know what rememberance day is, or respect it much if they do...
now, before you say, 'oh its only coz you're a cadet'.... i went to every rememberance parade i could. this is because i felt it was important, even from a very early age, to remember those who died....actually died... for us to live the way we do today. if i could appreciate that when i was 5, why the hell cant people do it today in their teens?
does it so fail to hold our attention, that these people fell in combat and didnt get up, that we negate to see the importance at all and instead chose to do anything barr go to a cenotaph and spend 2 minutes in fucking silence.... just to say thanks....
if people genuinly believe in a god, then i couldnt think of any other way to say thanks than to get off your arse and actually see the memorial that represents them....an everlasting reminder of their sacrafice so that you can do what the fuck you like....
i truly consider it an honour and a privalige to be holding the banner of my squadron, standing to attention and saluting those who died from my squadron and the rest of the world, so i could be there, standing there..... able to remember them and what they did. i feel its the least i could do.
so can you imagine how much it grates me to hear, 'whats tha...?', when i ask the question, 'are you going to rememberance parade?'......
i cant really say it offends me, because im not military myself....but ive got friends in the army and air force, and i know people who've died in Iraq and Afganistan..... so you can imagine how much it truly pisses me off and angers me to get the response;
'i cba to go'....
i'll remember that when i think of my dead friends.
We do our own rememberance service in Church so going along to the Caerphilly one too would be a lot...
ReplyDeleteI get what you're saying :)