The Day after the Memorial Day

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The Day after the Memorial Day

“We are, meanwhile, going to erect befitting monument tombs with beautiful flowers on them for our fallen soldiers. And enter their names on their tombstones in letters of gold, with our national pennant flying overhead. For they did not die in vain They fought and died for the empire. And we hope that many fresh entrust 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 fellow Americans on Memorial Day Rather, it was the speaking of Sunrise and Sunset, two kings who had led expeditionary forces throughout the sett in a vain hunt for Inferno, the terrorist They had reciprocal home without their soldiers, and had to explain to their countrymen and women why it was necessary for the soldiers to die The book’s duration from which the citation was taken is my awkward 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 radius which is arduous to grasp. But, if these deaths had been diffuse evenly over a period, war would retain killed around 2,500 family every day That is over 100 folks an hour, around the clock, for ninety years” Hardly body to cheer about. People are either being slaughtered in political, racial, or religious wars And members of the armed forces are dying in vast numbers.It is for this actuation that nations all over the spell obtain congeal aside a date to remember its fallen soldiers Americans hold twothe Memorial Day, which is marked on the last Monday of May, and Remembrance Sunday or Veterans Day revered on November 11. On these occasions, seasoned language writers ensconced in the serenity of well defended offices, keel Demosthenian and Ciceronian speeches and hand them over to procure dodging heads of states, who intone the virtues of surrender and the reward of patriotism in the harmonious voice of angelsThere will be somber ecclesiastical services in churches on Memorial Day in the United States The pastors cede specifically petition God to presume the souls’ of the departed soldiers and consign them special seats in heaven; wives would sorrow 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 absent 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 other is verbal to retain played inoffensive But they are both honorable men. One phenomenon which men of honor do on Memorial days is to chronicle their daring escapades in war. One presidential candidate may script the appearance of the person he saved from drowning in a river during the war in Vietnam I don’t recognize what the other would do. However, he too, is an honorable man But what happens after the Memorial Day? The big mark of presidents’ speeches on Memorial days is usually a determination to make America and the system safer as a testimonial to the fallen soldiers. But that tally has been made over and over again It was made four months before 9/11. Yet stillness continues to flee America and the worldAs regards this, French playwright Moliere said: “Of all follies there is none greater than desire to make the cosmos a change place” Was he right? Let UN scribe Kofi Annan answer. “I imagine the most frustrating allocation is that we all comprehend what’s wrong and what needs to be done, but we often can’t accomplishment upon it,” he says That is an admission of omission supreme The secretary-general and Bill Clinton for example, maxim the impending genocide in Rwanda (80,000 slaughtered in 100 daysworse than what Adolph Hitler did to the Jews.) Yet they refused to performance (I posses verbal elsewhere that that system device should be scrapped) But is the preceding any guide? According to William Shakespeare, “What is recent is prologue” The sway of foregone world pogrom should hold provided an insight to our leaders not to repeat legend However, it is not so Kofi Annan again agrees: “At times, when incredible things are event and we want to awaken the conscience of the world, no one wants to manoeuvre because of blighted experiences in the past” See what’s event in Iraq now See what Israel is doing to Hamas’ leaders in Palestinemurder in broad daylight. Yet the hands of the members of the creation something are tied One bidding verbal that romance is a narrative 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 sprout and bomb his spirit parents: Hatred, Oppression, Frustration, Injustice, Mistrust, Fear, and Enmity. But these spirits are unaffected to the guns and bombs of these men The start fails and Inferno is unshackle to thicken the system on kindle The narrative is therefore a real allegory alluding to the ineffectual contact of violence to thwart violenceIf we do not annihilate these monsters that breed war and terror, the killings would continue, and the veterans would hold fought and died in vain. And Memorial days would prolong to come and go Presidents would bestow 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, book reviewer, and proclaimed author.BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORhttp://www1stbookscom/bookview/21013CHASING SHADOWS!: A Dreamhttp://www.1stbookscom/bookview/10975HOW TO WRITE A BEST-SELLER