‘Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing. Where have all the soldiers gone, a long, long time ago. Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards ever one..” – from the song ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone by the late, legendary folksinger and anti-war activist, Pete Seeger
A Brief One for Remembrance Day
Posted by Doug Draper on Niagara At Large, November 10th, 2023
Grave markers in France, for Canadians who fought and died in arguably the one of the bloodiest wars in human history – World War One or what some at the time hoped would be “the war to end all wars.” It wasn’t.
I could write a few lines about my wish that we, as a supposedly intelligent species on this planet, find a way to forever put an end to war. But how many would bother reading, let alone taking my words seriously.
My guess is, not many.
The war memorial near in my childhood home, in Chippawa, Park in Welland, Ontario, with the names of young people from the community who fought and died in World Wars One and Two. file photo by Doug Draper
This November 11th, as millions of people across Canada and other countries flock to memorials and cemeteries for a moment of silence, men, women and children are suffering and dying from bullets and bombs in Ukraine, in Israel and the Gaza Strip, and in too many other places around the world.
And in all of the seven decades I have been around and going back for as many centuries as you want to think about, it has gone on and on and on.
So I leave you with the words “when will we ever learn” and to Peter Seeger’s sorrowful and powerful song, that you can hear by clicking on the screen below –
WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN? WHEN INDEED. – Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
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