All sides are wrong in all wars.
Wait, hold on, I take that back!
All sides are right in all wars,
at least to soldiers who fought and died.
Nobody gives his life for something
if he had doubt it could be wrong.
We kill each other and we're both right
or at least we are brainwashed
to think that needed to be done.
That's how messed up this life is.
Try to get it, be my guest,
but make sure to keep your mind.
We think the wars were justified.
And yet we think this fake peace is.
"Fake" because we can't be friends
while, every year, you celebrate
the day your fathers killed mine.
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This is too good to critique.
I have a huge issue with remembrance day, and the way troops are honoured here. I just don't feel it does anything to promote acceptance and forgiveness. Fighting in a war (and hopefully I don't get eaten for this one) does not automatically make heroes. War is fought by frightened men, whos fear has been twisted into hate. I kind appreciate that WW2 is supposed to be different, but was it, really. There, on the front lines, did both sides hate each other with a passion... or were they just men, killing other men just like them, so they could go home. Men lined up, and ran at each other, knowing most of them would never see their families again, and the only hope they had was to kill as many others as they could. It was a horrible horrible thing, a necessary evil at best, not something to be celebrated. I know remembrance day here is more mournful, but we literally remember certain local people... no one who dies in war should go unremembered. No one will ever know how they really felt. It is sad that people died, sadder that a situation arose where people felt they had to kill each other. I wish instead countries all over the world would remember that, and the focus would be more on people died on both sides, lets always remember how much that sucked and not do it again.
also maybe something about not taking a place from the people who live there and saying it belongs to someone else, but then maybe more about not drawing lines and placing value on life depending on where it falls in relation to those lines on a map. Maybe more about how we are all the same people, and although there are differences between us, that is a good thing. We balance each other in this great world. There is no us and them, just people who don't wana die - phew rant over
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This comment of yours is a reminder that people CAN be so different and strangely like-minded at the same time.
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Bro this is a really nicely written piece with such an important message...
Its how I am able to find compassion and love for all the people that have done terrible things 'wrong' in the past -
In their mind - they thought they were doing what's best - even if it was totally deluded and obviously a terrible thing - they had convinced themselves or been brainwashed into believing it was for the benefit of the greater good.
Everybody wants to be a hero I guess.
Awesome piece <3
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Hart Floe Poet
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