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Nov. 9th, 2003 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolCrap.
I know perfectly well what today was, and it's the first time in about 7 years I haven't been to the Armistice Parade, and I feel damned guilty now. I had the minutes silence, before going downstairs and ripping into my sister for not respecting it herself. To which she laughed, and said: "So?"
I wanted to kick her head in. I don't disagree with war. I wish it didn't have to happen, but sometimes it does- would Hitler have been desposed any other way? And I think back to the hundreds of thousands of people who die in wars, and I want to cry, because I couldn't do it. I couldn't go out into the field of battle, I couldn't risk my own life, not in that way...
So that was why I always honoured Remembrance Sunday, and thats why I feel bloody guilty about not going to the service.
I'll go next year. And I'll carry a flag again, and I'll feel as though, finally, I'm doing my part to remember everyone who died, and everyone who's risking their lives as I type this.
Am I the only teenager who feels like this? Surely I can't be. But... god, the way my sister was about it was just so... awful... why am I one of a minority who seems to care about things like this?
Stupid sister. Stupid society.
~Hathy_Col~
I know perfectly well what today was, and it's the first time in about 7 years I haven't been to the Armistice Parade, and I feel damned guilty now. I had the minutes silence, before going downstairs and ripping into my sister for not respecting it herself. To which she laughed, and said: "So?"
I wanted to kick her head in. I don't disagree with war. I wish it didn't have to happen, but sometimes it does- would Hitler have been desposed any other way? And I think back to the hundreds of thousands of people who die in wars, and I want to cry, because I couldn't do it. I couldn't go out into the field of battle, I couldn't risk my own life, not in that way...
So that was why I always honoured Remembrance Sunday, and thats why I feel bloody guilty about not going to the service.
I'll go next year. And I'll carry a flag again, and I'll feel as though, finally, I'm doing my part to remember everyone who died, and everyone who's risking their lives as I type this.
Am I the only teenager who feels like this? Surely I can't be. But... god, the way my sister was about it was just so... awful... why am I one of a minority who seems to care about things like this?
Stupid sister. Stupid society.
~Hathy_Col~
