![]() ![]() The causes of that war still come across as a lot of muddle, causing a lot of harm.Īs to the Vietnam war……………….no idea how they got away with that one. ![]() I read ‘Black Lamb & Grey Falcon’ by Rebecca West, thinking it might make it more clear, but it didn’t. Maybe I don’t know enough about the politics behind it, but I never understood why the First World War was started because someone shot an Arch-duke in Sarajevo. In a war, lives are wasted, as well as money. May’s ‘Festival of Britain’ as a crazy thing, but better than a war, which is often the alternative chosen as a distraction technique. Some, are because governments take advantage of an opportunity. I believe that some wars are necessary, to stop even worse madness, such the Second World War. I am not an advocate of war, as a method of solving differences. I’ve nailed my colours to the mast, there. All life destroyed, but then, the poppies and other flowers come back, and the land restores itself. Then it’s with us if we choose to carry through our madness, often destroying other life along the way. The sooner horses came out of the equation, the better. Ok – I’ll get into trouble for this – people choose to fight wars, animals don’t. The horses in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ come to mind. Still doing its best, but in scenes of pure madness. The horse business….hmm…I know they were needed, but, again – imagine a horse who has lived it’s life on a farm, doing its best for its master – suddenly in a battle. ![]() Enough aspects of life were being destroyed, without folk being ordered to lose their animal companions, too. I stand by it though – I can imagine it – at a time of confusion and loss, one constant part of your world, isn’t lost to a bomb, but to a government edict.ĭid they eat the dead dogs? I bet they didn’t – if it was that bad – that would be the logical thing to do – if logic is all that matters. Things were bad enough, then your companion and friend, is ordered to be killed, when enough of your companions and friends may have already have been ‘lost’.Īlso, a knee jerk reaction to Governments adopting draconian measures, sometimes just because…they can.Ī knee-jerk reaction – I have them sometimes. I wouldn’t see the sense in it, even for the ‘war effort’. I love dogs, I can imagine how I would feel if that happened to me. Pet dogs, matter – imagine – it’s the war, your world is falling around you, and your dog is ordered to be killed, by your own ‘leaders’. I would argue that dogs are necessary – working dogs definitely so, and they probably weren’t killed. In times of war, they have even more power, and they, sometimes, mis-use that power. Governments do have a tendency to do things like that – they have power. I suppose it depends on how necessary dogs are seen as being. Yes, true – pigs will eat anything, and can then be eaten. Purple poppies honour all the horses who died in serving the human madness that was World War 1. They are worn to remember all victims of war, a commitment to peace and a challenge to attempts to glamorise or celebrate war. They are distributed by the Peace Pledge Union (PPU).īlack poppies are a newer addition and are worn to commemorate all those who have died due to imperialist war and its legacy: dead soldiers, dead civilians and dead conscientious objectors. Nowadays you may see people wearing different colours of poppies symbolising the wider effects of war. In Flanders Fields was a poem written by Canadian WW1 surgeon Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae It symbolises the military personnel who have died in war. The red poppy most usually worn around the commemoration of Armistice Day has been used since 1921. ![]()
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