The Day after the Memorial Day
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The Day after the Memorial Day
“We are, meanwhile, going to erect befitting reliquary tombs with beautiful flowers on them for our fallen soldiers. And log their names on their tombstones in scholarship of gold, with our governmental banner flying overhead For they did not die in vain They fought and died for the domain And we hope that many more commit volunteer to fight and die for our Great Fatherland May God bless the Empire!”That was not the voice of the president of the United States, addressing person Americans on Memorial Day. Hongfactory Rather, it was the vocabulary of Sunrise and Sunset, two kings who had led expeditionary forces throughout the lair in a vain hunt for Inferno, the terrorist They had shared home without their soldiers, and had to explain to their countrymen and women why it was imperative for the soldiers to die The book’s title from which the selection was taken is my controversial work, CHASING SHADOWS! : A DreamAccording to Jonathan Glover in his book, HumanityA Moral History of the Twentieth Century, “Death in twentieth-century war has been on a scope which is arduous to grasp. But, if these deaths had been diffuse evenly over a period, war would retain killed around 2,500 relatives every day. That is over 100 relatives an hour, around the clock, for ninety years” Hardly entity to cheer about People are either being slaughtered in political, racial, or ecclesiastical wars And members of the armed forces are dying in big numbers.It is for this motive that nations all over the term obtain crystallize aside a date to remember its fallen soldiers. Americans have twothe Memorial Day, which is blatant on the last Monday of May, and Remembrance Sunday or Veterans Day important on November 11. On these occasions, seasoned talking writers ensconced in the serenity of well guarded offices, vessel Demosthenian and Ciceronian speeches and navvy them over to acquire dodging heads of states, who intone the virtues of yielding and the reward of patriotism in the mellifluous voice of angelsThere consign be somber ecclesiastical services in churches on Memorial Day in the United States The pastors leave specifically petition God to presume the souls’ of the departed soldiers and consign them special seats in heaven; wives would ululate over their dead husbands; tombs of the gallant’ heroes would be whitewashed and beautiful flowers would be laid on them; war veterans who had been forgotten would instantly be remembered; there would be reports of sighted soldiers in far away lands who had been lost in action; and most importantthere would be a one minute silence in memory of the dead.This year’s Memorial Day promises to be interesting Because one presidential candidate is a decorated war veteran while the further is uttered to own played innocuous But they are both honorable men One body which men of honor do on Memorial days is to recount their daring escapades in war One presidential candidate may script the guise of the companion he saved from drowning in a river during the war in Vietnam I don’t perceive what the other would do. However, he too, is an honorable fellow But what happens after the Memorial Day? The lofty dot of presidents’ speeches on Memorial days is usually a determination to make America and the totality safer as a honour to the fallen soldiers. But that invoice has been made over and over again It was made four months before 9/11. Yet calm continues to avoid America and the worldAs regards this, French playwright Moliere said: “Of all follies there is none greater than desire to make the globe a correct place” Was he right? Let UN scribe Kofi Annan answer. “I conjecture the most frustrating share is that we all comprehend what’s wrong and what needs to be done, but we often can’t action upon it,” he says That is an admission of fault supreme The secretary-general and Bill Clinton for example, epigram the looming genocide in Rwanda (80,000 slaughtered in 100 daysworse than what Adolph Hitler did to the Jews.) Yet they refused to achievement (I keep spoken elsewhere that that totality entity should be scrapped) But is the elapsed any guide? According to William Shakespeare, “What is foregone is prologue” The vanguard of former globe pogrom should hold provided an insight to our leaders not to recite history. However, it is not so. Kofi Annan again agrees: “At times, when incredible things are episode and we lack to awaken the conscience of the world, no one wants to move because of mildewed experiences in the past” See what’s incident in Iraq now See what Israel is doing to Hamas’ leaders in Palestinemurder in broad daylight. Yet the hands of the members of the system phenomenon are tied One authority said that romance is a romance of unfulfilled expectations and failed dreams This is because we are searching for tranquillity with the wrong tools.When the two kings quoted earlier in CHASING SHADOWS! did not see Inferno, the terrorist, they blatant to vegetate and bomb his pith parents: Hatred, Oppression, Frustration, Injustice, Mistrust, Fear, and Enmity. But these spirits are resistant to the guns and bombs of these men The onslaught fails and Inferno is liberate to set the creation on flame The romance is therefore a legitimate allegory alluding to the ineffectual effect of violence to thwart violenceIf we do not stop these monsters that breed war and terror, the killings would continue, and the veterans would have fought and died in vain. And Memorial days would keep to come and go Presidents would allot Demosthenian and Ciceronian speeches and exit But death and gravedomthe ultimate winnerswould forever dog our heels, the heels of our wives, and that of our childrenARTHUR ZULU is an editor, narrative reviewer, and known author.BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORhttp://www1stbookscom/bookview/21013CHASING SHADOWS!: A Dreamhttp://www.1stbookscom/bookview/10975HOW TO WRITE A BEST-SELLER