A Minute of Silence...FOR BOTH SIDES...
Abhishek, one of my students just before I retired from four-walled traditional teaching, emailed me... with the video link...
I added a short note to it to explain the content...and asked him whether he is willing to add his thoughts to it...
Abhishek, one of my students just before I retired from four-walled traditional teaching, emailed me... with the video link...
I added a short note to it to explain the content...and asked him whether he is willing to add his thoughts to it...
Warsaw...August 1... "A Minute of Silence..."
Every
August first, everyone in Warsaw stands still for a full minute to remember 200
000 dead
The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944. For the next
63 days, Poland’s army fought the Nazis, trying to liberate their capital. The
rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union’s advance that should
have left the Germans vulnerable, but…
…various military and
political miscalculations, as well as global politics — played among Joseph
Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt — turned the dice against
[Warsaw].
The effort lasted nine
weeks and failed, leaving 200,000 Polish dead, mainly civilians.
Every year, Warsaw commemorates this horrific tragedy with a minute of stillness. It is tremendously moving, needless to say…
I also found this sir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ykBTvP6ZX9s.
Abhishek
Every year, Warsaw commemorates this horrific tragedy with a minute of stillness. It is tremendously moving, needless to say…
I also found this sir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Abhishek
Poland's "Minute of Silence" on Aug. 1....
Abhishek, and ALL the Youth of the World...
I am indeed apprehensive about these remembrance
events... I am at times sickened with the tenor of the speeches... They
essentially boil down to “Our boys were the good guys and their boys were the
bad ones...We fought for high ideas like democracy and freedom, while they were
the aggressors and the tyrants and evil...”
This one sided approach is disheartening to say the
least...and demonstrates that we never comprehended that wars kill the boys from
BOTH sides... and that our side is human, and believe it or not, the other side
is human too...
But this is the logic...
- We initiate a propaganda war...
- We dehumanize the other side...
- The rah-rah is elevated to insanely fever pitch...levels...
- Then, only then, we militarize the conflict...
- We bomb the hell out of the other side...
- We kill...and we mutilate...and we rape...and we burn...and we destroy...and we brutalize entire cities...and their civilian population...
- ...And then we look at our achievement...We are content of “our six day toil”...
- We look at our achievement... ALL IS BEAUTIFUL...ALL IS GOOD...
- ...and we initiate REMEMBRANCE DAYS...
Remember..and Reflect on PEACE..
We remember...and by remembering we “educate” the youth and the population at large for the NEXT WAR... After all our side is the “GOOD” side...and the “other side” ... (which we still do not know and cannot identify YET)...but definitely is the “BAD” side...
Every November 11 I was depressed and sick... The Remembrance
Day essentially was another form of war mongering...It dismayed me... A cadet –
essentially, a soldier scout, approached me in front of a supermarket asking
for donation...
“I do not support wars...” was my
answer...
“We
do not fight...,”said the cadet...
“But
you are part of the army...” I said and walked away...
Remembering one side defies logic...Every Remembrance Day I wore a poppy ... My classroom was full of poppies...edging the blackboard... But I posed the question ...
“what about the boys on the other side...?”
The poppies on top of the blackboard...
We remembered the guys on BOTH SIDES...
After all, I know that Germans died too... After all I
love to listen to Wagner too...
Wagner and Bolshoi...Side by side...
St. Petersburg and Kiev...
Side by side...
Every Remembrance Day ... I remembered humans
inhumanity to fellow humans ... regardless of the side, regardless of the faith,
regardless of the
creed ...
creed ...
The
world is not flat... the world is sort of round and has NO SIDES...
That’s the math for
you...
There is no “our
side” and there is no “there side".... There is ONE HUMAN COLLECTIVE... and,
There is one Global Village...
And now, Abhishek
ALL
the youth of the world...
May
PEACE be with you...
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Hillary Clinton: War is “coercive diplomacy” ... She said the other day when I as listening to her... War is the extension of diplomacy...another diplomat reiterated...
But,
I will argue that war is the failure of diplomacy... par excellence... It is an uncivilized way of resolving conflicts and solving contradictions...
But,
I will argue that war is the failure of diplomacy... par excellence... It is an uncivilized way of resolving conflicts and solving contradictions...
It is brutish where the animal instincts overwhelm the
person...
When one nation honours the war
victims...automatically and with the extension of simple logic... they are justifying their "cause" and degrading the other side...
I have witnessed Remembrance Days over and over again... When the soldiers of one side were honoured...It always bothered me...
I have witnessed Remembrance Days over and over again... When the soldiers of one side were honoured...It always bothered me...
What does the other side do...? Do they honour their
soldiers too...?
If both sides do honour their soldiers as heroes...Can
we truly say that the war is over...?
French and German presidents hug...But should we believe them....?
and read the news item below...
and read the news item below...
Former Enemies Unite for World War I Commemoration
LIEGE, Belgium — Aug
4, 2014, 7:22 AM ET
By VIRGINIA MAYO and RAF CASERT
Associated Press
Former enemies united Monday to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, with Belgium,
France, Britain and Germany standing together in a spirit of reconciliation.
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The honest and logical truth... War is killing....and
GOOD people SHOULD NOT KILL...
“Thou shall NOT kill...” and “kill” does not
have adjectives before or after... and “kill” does not have any
qualifiers...following it...
There is no such thing...“Thou shall NOT kill...” but
when... or “Thou shall not kill...” only if...
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