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MaamJay -> RE: Lest we forget: thanks (11/12/2010 6:58:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: agirl
Last night at the Folk Group I belong to, many people sang and played songs relating to war, peace, lost lives etc. It was a rather nice touch. I played *Last Night I had the Strangest Dream* as my contribution.
agirl
Ohhhh that gave Me pangs of missing My folk group! I ran one for 11 years from My house. I would have had a tough time choosing what to sing, but probably Dylan's "Masters of War" would have topped the list if someone else hadn't sung it first!
We watched a TV show here in Australia that featured Michael Palin who had researched the deaths on the last day of WWI, leading up to the armistice. Absolutely tragic to Me that some of the generals were gung ho about fighting right up to the last minute, even when they knew that after 11am they could peacefully take the territory. Apparently all the French men who died on that last day have gravestones saying the 10th November, they didn't want to admit it was on the last day of the war. They found the granddaughters of the last British casualty and took them to the grave, and also gave them a picture of him that they'd never had, very moving. Another thing was pointing out that the casualties, those who were physically and mentally disfigured, are often neglected, we tend to remember the "glorious dead" and yet we can't know the true impact without thinking as poise mentioned. At the end, he pointed out that no matter on which day of the war they died, every death was a tragedy, and to someone, somewhere, a huge loss. There are no winners in war either.
Maam Jay aka violet[A]
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