Lest we Forget

This Remembrance Day do not think of our men and women in uniform. Do not think of bravery. Do not think of patriotism. Do not think of our sacrifices and victories. None of this is of Remembrance Day.

Lest we forget, we mark the armistice of what was then the Great War but is now only World War One to remember the horror of war. This Remembrance Day think only of the corpses, the piles and piles of corpses, most not uniformed, corpses shot and starved and murdered and gassed, corpses rotting in trenches or rendered into unrecognizable pulp by mortar or artillery fire, corpses mangled and burned and crushed by aerial bombardment (and we are told the bombs are much smarter now, but how intelligence is measured by mangled corpses I do not know), corpses still locked in their tin cans under the sea, corpses in their dress uniforms and in neat rows.

Remember the maimed, the limbless, the blind, the ones whose souls not bodies were rent and torn, but mostly just remember the tens of millions of corpses, and 'remember' a horror of war that you have never experienced, and want never to experience, and vow to never support it.

The rest is propaganda: don't think it, don't say it, don't hear it.