Remembrance Day, a time to reflect.

Remembrance Day. I know life is for the living, and we have carry on even when people die, but to remember is the way to make sure that people really learn, and don't make the same mistakes over and over. Remembrance Day will be different to many people. For me, I will always think of the futility of war. After hearing about the horrors and talking about World War 2 to my father, in the US Army, my father in law, in the German army, and Uncle in the British army, they all say the same thing. Nobody wants to be there. I grew up reading Kurt Vonegut's Slaughterhouse 5, and having a definite feeling that there is something wrong with the idea of killing someone. I also read the bible, and a few other books that look down on the idea of killing. Freedom isn't free, we know this from the tyrannies of the past. We have to rise up against that. We also know that governments wage war for economic and idealistic reasons, which are not always good reasons. So I am using today to reflect on both, and hope that one day, we will no longer have war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day