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1. Gabriel skriver:

   10 juni, 2012 kl. 12:23

   The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, was to signal the end of “The War to End All Wars.”A tad over-optimistic, weren’t they?And yes, thank you to all of the veanetrs who’ve served.But when will we have a day for all of the civilians who were wounded and killed, and who wanted no part of any of the wars (not that all of the vet’s did)?What about the civilians who died around Flanders Field?Or were killed, wounded, or displaced by the armies gathering at The Battle of the Somme?Or the families around Stalingrad, like my mothers, who lost family members and had to go through Hitler Camps, and then the Displaced People Camps, before they found that after 10 years of war and wandering, they were going to America, ‘the Promised Land,’ instead of back to the USSR and certain death.The people of Korea?And Vietnam?And Iraq?And the countless other wars that we weren’t directly involved in?I’d like to see a “Civilians in War Day.” A day to remember the people who went through the horrors of war every bit as terrible as those with uniforms and dog-tags.Just another Liberal’s pipe-dream!

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