Rememberance Day
I'd been trying to think all day of some way I could write about this day that's somehow different from everything else we read every November 11th. Calvin's provided me with a little inspiration.
He blogs about how we remember only one minute annually the countless millions who surrendered their lives under horrible conditions for us. It seems odd that we do this for one minute, but scarcely ever recall our brave soldiers for the remaing year-less-a-minute.
I think that is exactly why rememberance day is so important. They gave their lives so that we could do just this. So that we wouldn't have to think about war always. So that we wouldn't constantly have to worry whether our loved ones were safe or alive. That year-less-a-minute of peaceful and happy living is the fallen's gift to us. Out of our otherwise war and pain free lives, this is why we regard this single day, and single minute annually so closely and why we must never, ever forget those by whom we were given the other 364 days of the year.
He blogs about how we remember only one minute annually the countless millions who surrendered their lives under horrible conditions for us. It seems odd that we do this for one minute, but scarcely ever recall our brave soldiers for the remaing year-less-a-minute.
I think that is exactly why rememberance day is so important. They gave their lives so that we could do just this. So that we wouldn't have to think about war always. So that we wouldn't constantly have to worry whether our loved ones were safe or alive. That year-less-a-minute of peaceful and happy living is the fallen's gift to us. Out of our otherwise war and pain free lives, this is why we regard this single day, and single minute annually so closely and why we must never, ever forget those by whom we were given the other 364 days of the year.
