I’m just not sure how i feel about remembrance day any more…. the hypocrisy of warmongering politicians laying wreaths while their bank accounts fill with money from arms dealing is just too much.
i will stand in silence for those who gave everything to defend this country when it was under attack, for their bravery and selflessness as i always do.
but there is certainly conflict within me about it when i consider the motivations of the more recent conflicts such as Iraq, where our country illegally attacked another, for financial profit at the cost of so many thousands of civilian lives
maybe this isn’t a day to consider the politics of our forign policy but then again maybe this is exactly the day to do that, for surely this is a day for remembering just how terrible war really is, and for encouraging a stop to armed conflicts