I had a lot of thoughts about Veterans Day/Remembrance Day, most of them negative. The latest generation doesn't remember, or doesn't know that there were world war veterans, or that there are even wars going on today. This isn't a 'kids are bad' post, this is a 'current adults are not doing enough to help us all remember the price of peace.'
There is a lot of talk about representation on Remembrance Day (good) but there is a lot less focus on the act and the work to be done, once a year, to contemplate what it means to live in a time of peace, and that peace does not come without a cost of life (bad). I wonder if young people today can comprehend, that to have what we have, people have died, and not just a few people, but an amount that can barely be counted.
The idea that your entire city, your entire country, burned to the ground, to start again. There are places, now, where things like this happen all the time. We are so lucky to live where we live, to have the freedoms, the privileges, the access to so many positive things, the rights that we have.
I hope the future generations can find peace in this large, large world we live in. I hope there are adults that can teach young people today, that the world they live in is ripe for change, but change for the better still has a cost. It is not free.
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