As Britains tried to pay respect to their war dead, another group showed their disrespect. The Daily Mail has the sickening story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328703/Two-faces-Armistice-Day-Boy-brimming-pride-fanatics-burning-hate.html
First, thank you for calling it Armistice Day. I've always thought that the homogenized "Veterans Day" robbed the date of its true meaning. There is also Memorial Day, and V-J day, and V-E day, and they each have a specific meaning.
ReplyDeleteThere is something trite about calling the counter-observance "shameful." Shame is only worth talking about if the people you are talking about have a sense of shame. If a child seeks their parents' good opinion, "I'm very disappointed in you" can be an effective statement, when true. The poppy burners don't seek you good opinion, or mine.
They are about on a par with Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. Ignore them, slight them, or smash them if feasible, but don't bother to use words like shame.
I must note though that whatever British soldiers fought for, it was seldom "the freedom to protest." They were still fighting WW II for restoration of their empire, which is why for a time Aung San Suu Kyi's father allied his Burmese nationalist army with Japan. Afghanistan is indeed the graveyard of empires, and we should all have had the sense to go in, kick some Taliban butt, then let the Northern Alliance sort things out while we went home again.
lymmies? What an appropriate word verification for this topic.
Suu Kyi???? Sorry, I missed her face in the photos.
ReplyDeleteShe wouldn't have been in London Gary, she was just released from house arrest in Yangon. I thought you knew.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you weren't aware that her father led a Burmese nationalist movement before, during, and shortly after World War II... neither of them was born in London.