Remembrance Day

Lest We Forget.

Indeed. Spent a minute just now contemplating my mom's uncle, who was wounded and evacuated from Dieppe, but officially missing in action for days. And his brother, who searched hospitals until he found him. My wounded uncle Art was the jokester in the family. Corny, but all smiles. My uncle Bill who found his was a scoundrel for many reasons, but on that occasion, he did good.

Art had every reason to be bitter, but I never saw him that way. Maybe he used humour to mask the memories. I don't know and it's too late to ask him.

It seems forgetting is common given the urge towards conflict for more than we require for survival ... might we ask what is delinquent and where it has gone?

Out there huh ... the philosophy of loss ... like Storms in the Desert ...

They quite often give us an outside view to the ruins of conflict ... think of the palest of containers ...

I didn't go to the Cenataph, but I sat in the park, praying for those who survived and others who lost their lives, and families that still remember that knock on the door...whispering thank-you, with tears in my eyes.
When I opened my eyes, three planes in perfect formation flew above me.
Thank-you veterans.

chansen said:

Indeed. Spent a minute just now contemplating my mom's uncle, who was wounded and evacuated from Dieppe, but officially missing in action for days. And his brother, who searched hospitals until he found him. My wounded uncle Art was the jokester in the family. Corny, but all smiles. My uncle Bill who found his was a scoundrel for many reasons, but on that occasion, he did good.

Art had every reason to be bitter, but I never saw him that way. Maybe he used humour to mask the memories. I don't know and it's too late to ask him.

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How often is arid humor used to cover for depth of injuries ... PTSD, etc. I've experienced it so much that I find it difficult to turn my back on it ... to the point that perhaps it does me in consciously ... Lord I've attempted to support but it appears beyond me ... I have hopes for a future resolution ... somewhere beyond here and now as conflict burns up our resources in a senseless path-eH?

Some are numbed to it by their great avarice ... urge to control the uncontrollable accrued desires? Weird essence like Sirocco another desert storm that presents as sands of time? In the east it provides valuable loess ... complex!

Ever encounter the Movie Sand Pebbles --- Steve McQueen? It was about a great restriction the Yellow River? Pi Jin Go ... or Beijing O ... a flowing story! Soil is a retainer ... and yet we abuse it ... as Mire ... in other occasions Myra ... given varied phonetics ...

Then the pop-up and Pop Ayre ... ET as a hanger ...

We do a Remembrance Day minute on a Teams meeting at work (so all offices can participate together).

My connection to the world wars is somewhat tenuous. No one in my family served save one great-uncle who was an engineer based in the UK in the run up to D-Day. My grandfathers were too young for WWI, my parents too young for WWII so my direct line had little opportunity to do anything more than be supporters on the home front (e.g. my paternal grandfather ministered to troops stationed in the area where he was serving a congregation during WWII). So I know the history and read a fair bit about WWII in my youth, but I don't feel a strong personal connection to it. It's modern wars like Afghanistan that I feel more connected to (I worked with a woman whose son served there and whose husband served on some peacekeeping missions).

In the end, I'm of the "this should be remembered to make sure it never happens again" mindset and am quite dismayed by how the world is going right now. Maybe we need a Peace Day more than just a Remembrance Day. I work with a Ukrainian single mother who left her homeland with daughter in tow because of the Russians. How do we commemorate her losses?

Mendalla said:

We do a Remembrance Day minute on a Teams meeting at work (so all offices can participate together).

My connection to the world wars is somewhat tenuous. No one in my family served save one great-uncle who was an engineer based in the UK in the run up to D-Day. My grandfathers were too young for WWI, my parents too young for WWII so my direct line had little opportunity to do anything more than be supporters on the home front (e.g. my paternal grandfather ministered to troops stationed in the area where he was serving a congregation during WWII). So I know the history and read a fair bit about WWII in my youth, but I don't feel a strong personal connection to it. It's modern wars like Afghanistan that I feel more connected to (I worked with a woman whose son served there and whose husband served on some peacekeeping missions).

In the end, I'm of the "this should be remembered to make sure it never happens again" mindset and am quite dismayed by how the world is going right now. Maybe we need a Peace Day more than just a Remembrance Day. I work with a Ukrainian single mother who left her homeland with daughter in tow because of the Russians. How do we commemorate her losses?

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With the dedication to aggressiveness and conflict today ... I wonder that any child can grow up with the gem of cooperation in mind. Violence is so wasteful it does raise question in that deep dark spot in my psyche. That being something the hostile oppose ... like an old Korean Veteran used to say to me: "remember R ___ a thinker is a danger to Romans"!
I have connections with a number of veterans. Dad did not go overseas as he was ready to load on the transports 3 times and was returned to base 3 times. Why? His commander knew he was a bit of a baseball hero and knew he was good for raising morale in the troops that were training. Some of the veterans treated him badly for that part of his makeup. Others served in various non combat areas while a few uncles never made it out alive. My grandfathers both worked as skilled labor in manufacturing for the war effort ... does one still have sympathy and empathy for those that suffered? I do although I heard people say forget those negative feelings and get on with life ... living for the moment?

I find myself immersed in many moments strewn across time ... sometimes overwhelming as passions that might block out comprehension ...

I tend to question everything so as to know something of the projections ...

Every year on this day I go to this channel and find something that I can reflect on for more than a minute.

This video fits that bill today and I am sitting down to watch it now.

WhyCzar said:

Every year on this day I go to this channel and find something that I can reflect on for more than a minute.

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Should have been that every year (for about 5 years now) I go to this website on this memorable day Armistice Day and this year I found reference to the video that I posted above.

I got interrupted when I was making the post and in my hurry to post I mixed it up a bit.

Bottom line:

Mendalla said:

Maybe we need a Peace Day more than just a Remembrance Day.

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And that is why I prefer to steer away from the televised events of the day and make a point of looking for the Veterans for Peace perspective.

Is the only time a person has peace is when they are dead? Could this be why some say that wisdom is in the valley or veil of Kush?

Or is it when a veil of darkness is drawn over them when their awareness is stifled as in sleep? This would be hard to accept for a person prone to nightmares, or some other thing affecting the mental functions (memory of function of processing sectors).

Such functions are a general mystery although I've encountered those that say there is no such item as the mind, soul psyche or whatever other label that function receives. As a function that goes on out of sight some would sat it is dark, mysterious or abstract as hard to visualize.

If one denies the function ... will it depart the subject and lodge in the objective vision ... kind of out there is separate, different state than subjective?

This may be so darkly abstract it may be deformed as some artists would express their impressions of the characters of Psyche and Wisdom (Sophia as a dark witch). Ever catch sight of such dark essence? It may be the logic behind many powers having a fear of the power of the female essence over a man; who could say for sure? Then there is the inversion of this image in that little dark spot of focus in the eye of the mind. You cannot put this aside as we have both mother and father essence within us as a consequence of genes splitting. In frank linguistic a droit (DNA) and its mystical gauche portions as gamma? In ancient script this is like Roue (r), or ruag' a fabrication piece of the mate in the winds of time. The expression of this material between mates can give birth to a new soul. Why is it some complicated and obscure? Maybe to make the process frightening as a never ending process of distribution of some that fear large functions. This fear is overcome by a mysterious power of desire attached to the stranger ... a different person as each of us are regardless of some powers trying to make us like them by any means they can apply to overcome difference (heresy). The impossible wish?

Now to expand on the mystery, when DNA splits in either partner we have to consider the use of the leftover bits of RNA as roue as if we roue the day as the amines are distributed in manufacture of other genes. Imagine the initial pair allowing their other half to dissipate in the background ... creating an unknown along with the primal cell that identifies a beginning. It is a process we have hard to accept ... that there is something we just don't know.

Can this be true? It is impossible to say because of the complexity of all the other beyond that primal pair. Further is the miracle that this sense of logic and loss is stored in an essence of conscience in at least a small portion of the human body, an almost undetectable matter in the great extent.

I find this an ultimate enigma and yet some will tell you they know all about God and creation in a destructive surrounding ... as the countering winds blow ... Maria versus the wayward and thus a sense of homme on the waters ... men going down the sea in vessels ... a long passage of words will do to confuse the issue ... as people were forbidden to read in past beliefs ... and it is a rare skill to read in depth ... and many fear asking why! Transcendence of "what was" onto an inert medium ... sometimes a dead mortal ... that is not conscious of what they carry ... mummy, or MOG? Something that is astute ... in some cases a profound fried as Buddha 'n out?

Support the mystery do as many ... stunned activities to see results from somewhere distant ... describes without defining what is ultimately far out ...