Blog Post November 11, 2024: Remembrance Day 2024

Je me souviens. I remember…

https://idwellinpossibility.ca/2024/11/11/remembrance-day-2024/

#RemembranceDay #Blog

I'd say #LestWeForget, but I look around the world, and at #Palestine and it is clear we have.

"Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing and dying were all done in vain
For young Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again and again and again and again"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok

#TheGreenFieldsOfFrance #RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay

"Will our Friends of Israel MPs still insist on wearing poppies if they realise the poppy is Palestine’s national flower? It represents Palestine’s collective memory of loss, suffering and resilience and an unbreakable bond with the land.
Mary Adams
London"

Letters in the Guardian yesterday on #Poppymania

#RemembranceDay #Palestine

Poppy mania and the endless fight for peace | Remembrance Day | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/08/poppy-mania-and-the-endless-fight-for-peace

#Counterfire | #Poppies and the Purpose of #Remembrance

"Despite the traditional narrative of Britain fighting Nazi Germany for the sake of persecuted European communities and/or for Poland’s freedom, the Second World War was more to do with maintaining imperial hegemony and securing markets, although fighting a greater evil."

https://www.counterfire.org/article/poppies-and-the-purpose-of-remembrance/

#RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay