I'll think of this on Canada's Rememberance Day Nov. 11. I would like permision to use your poem for some of my classes, It reminds me of "in Flanders Fields" but with much "stronger" words.
Yes, you may. I am flattered that you wish to use it. I am not familiar with 'In Flander's Fields'. Have you a copy of it available?
~ Fern ~ :EDIT:
I would like copyright permision to use your poem,I hope that is what you have granted me. I will use your words for years to come,to teach my students.
Edited by XSha Tell at: 10/4/99 2:15:30 am Edited by XSha Tell at: 10/4/99 2:16:10 am
In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders Fields: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch: be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
by John Macrae [1872-1918]
A Canadian soldier of the first world war.
It is said that the red of the poppies represents the spilled blood of all those young men.
The poem touches the psyche of Canadians,and of those in Great Britain.
Where Goreans Miss The Boat
Memorial day, Armistice day, Rememberance day.
Whatever the name, they miss the boat.
It is not about "honour, duty, country".
It is not about blind obedience, war protesters are not cowards, in fact they are heroes as much as any soldier.
"They" fought and died to protect and defend those whom could not do so for themselves.
As we all know very very well, that is not a part of the gorean ethos.
Where goreans see war as 'honourable', a 'survival of the fittest'/'might makes right' scenario, most others see it as a neccesary evil to protect and uphold human rights.
There is no honour in killing another human being, no matter the justification.
*In the last decade of this century an average of 90% of all the war dead is comprised of women, children, the aged and other innocents.
They have not only been killed by the wounds caused by weapons but by the disease and starvation that follow in the wake of the fighting. They die because we forget that they had ever existed.
They do not affect Western lifestyles and they disappear when their stories become boring to us.
In the First World War 50%, World War Two 60% and in the Vietnam War 58% of the casualties were civilian. In Mozambique and the Sudan the percentages were 95 and 97 respectively.
*peacezine.org
But that is just one "warrior's" opinion.
Or is it?
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime".
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The Face Of "War".
"'I went into a refugee camp, and I was kind of wandering through [...] and I saw this one particular girl who had this really kind of haunted look in her eye'". McCurry said.
"'Her look summed up the horror, because her village had been bombed and her relatives had been killed, and she had to make this two-week trek through the mountains, in the dead of the Afghan winter, to the refugee camp'". McCurry said he tried to find the girl years later, but the refugee camp had been disbanded.
Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan directly caused by US bombing:
7.5 million Afghans need aid to survive*
20% or 1.5 million of those in need are children under age five*
Since 11 September, 135,000 + Afghans have fled to Pakistan in search of safety and assistance*
UN food agencies currently feed 1 million Afghans in their country*.
*UNHCR Nov. 2001.
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