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Murphy's Logic and reflections on 45+ years of broadcasting | SaltWireWhile the broad focus of Remembrance Day ceremonies is on all members of the Canadian Armed Forces who have died in war, the imagery and iconography of Nov. 11 remains rooted in just one hellish part of just one unjust war: the killing fields of the Western Front, where we are supposed to believe that the poppy-red blood of heroes was spilt ‘so we could be free.
In 1933, members of the Women’s Co-Operative Guild in the United Kingdom decided to turn the poppy dove-white. Appalled by the militaristic dumbing-down of ‘remembrance,’ the glorification of the slaughter that took or ruined the lives of so many of their loved ones, they insisted instead on remembering all war’s victims, military and civilian, in a spirit not of gratitude for noble sacrifice but rejection henceforth of armed conflict as an abomination.
Ninety years later, the pacifist flame still flickers, in the courageous hearts for example of conscientious objectors in Ukraine, Russia, Israel and elsewhere. But the dearest wish of humanity, defined in the UN Charter as “saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” seems a distant dream, despite the fact that that scourge could now ‘go nuclear.’
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