My Belated Remembrance Day Post…
November 15, 2009 | 10:42 pmI watched the movie Passchendaele for the first time today. It was an ok movie, but what struck me the most was the final scene. Not for the overly dramatic “kid on a cross” moment, but for the fighting scene, one man against another.
We’ve seen this a thousand times in movies. One man fights another, and you can’t even distinguish who’s on what side. At the end of the day, both these men are honorable (or not), probably have a wife waiting for them back home, a mother who will cry for them when they die, and neither of them are there because they hate the other. They are there because signed up for the army, and that’s where it took them.
I’ve always wondered what it takes for a man or a woman to go to war. For someone to believe in defending his country at the cost of leaving a widow and family behind.
Even though I’m the ultimate pacifist and will NEVER understand war, I realize that these men and women fight for more than just their country, they fight for an ideal, for freedom, and for ensuring the same way of life for their children and grandchildren.
So here is my thanks, to heroes who i will never understand, but who have sacrificed more than i will ever know.
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