Just a friendly reminder of the November 11 Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Here’s a photo of James Doohan, 22nd Field Battery, 13th Field Regiment RCA of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division. He was part of the famous D-Day landings of June 1944.
You can read more about here:
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
War is terrifying. I think accidents, including friendly fire, are just as much part of the horrors as facing an enemy. It’s sad to think about how young these kids were, and it helps me put the challenges of my life into perspective.
and the greatest lesson I’ve learned about any and all wars and the veterans that were left behind and survived is to always ask ‘why wars were started in the first place’
The biggest humanitarian crime I’ve come to learn is the lessons of the First World War and why that fiasco was even started. The more history you read into that conflict, the more confused and complicated and senseless it becomes.
And those question lead into WWII and the reasons why the second conflict started and how it could have been prevented. Because even as the world watched the fallout and the rise of fascism, no one really did anything to stop it and in many cases, helped to enable it to become the thing that everyone fought against.
The more history you read about every conflict, the more you realize that every conflict is preventable, which leads you to realize that every conflict is senseless.
Which is why I always believe that we have to remember … remember the fallen … but also remember the reason why they fought in the first place … and to remember the reasons and causes so that we never allow this to happen again.