Comments on: Armistice Day http://dervala.net/2004/11/11/armistice-day/ A love letter Mon, 21 May 2012 18:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: guy http://dervala.net/2004/11/11/armistice-day/comment-page-1/#comment-897 guy Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:41:15 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=627#comment-897 Nice. I chose "Willie McBride" which was brought to my attention by Clancy & Makem: http://swexegete.typepad.com/GuysBlog/2004/11/thank_you_pvt_m.html While the Irish certainly have a raft of war lyrics, they have a quite a number of antiwar ones as well. Nice. I chose “Willie McBride” which was brought to my attention by Clancy & Makem: http://swexegete.typepad.com/GuysBlog/2004/11/thank_you_pvt_m.html

While the Irish certainly have a raft of war lyrics, they have a quite a number of antiwar ones as well.

]]> By: Bert http://dervala.net/2004/11/11/armistice-day/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Bert Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:56:36 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=627#comment-896 UPDATE Albany, Channel 10, WTEN, right in the middle of the blue states, capital of NY... cancelled Saving Private Ryan because of the PhCC's phlap about using the ph word on TV. Using the ph word is indecent. I think the real reason is not wanting to show real war and its horrors on veterans day. Better to have flag waving, hypocritical words, and sanitized images. Now that, I think, is not only indecent, but obscene and immoral. UPDATE
Albany, Channel 10, WTEN, right in the middle of the blue states, capital of NY… cancelled Saving Private Ryan because of the PhCC’s phlap about using the ph word on TV. Using the ph word is indecent. I think the real reason is not wanting to show real war and its horrors on veterans day. Better to have flag waving, hypocritical words, and sanitized images. Now that, I think, is not only indecent, but obscene and immoral.

]]> By: Bert http://dervala.net/2004/11/11/armistice-day/comment-page-1/#comment-895 Bert Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:17:20 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=627#comment-895 Excellent post for this day, lest we forget the true horrors of war. It must have been difficult to choose which of his poems to post. This poem was written shortly before he was diagnosed with shell shock. This is a part of war that is not much talked about. The book "Beyond Valor" has a short final chapter which adresses wars' ravaging of the mind. Tonight I will watch the film "Saving Private Ryan" for the opening 45 minutes just to remind myself that war is hell. My dad always instilled this thought in me...which he learned first hand as a paratrooper in Normandy, Holland and Belgium. I never really understood the hell that played over and over in his head until recently. It is too bad that war is still so glorified by the media and politicians...to whit "Mission accomplished" Thank you Dervala for showing a little bit of the true nature of war. And why veterans should be honored for what they endured. Excellent post for this day, lest we forget the true horrors of war. It must have been difficult to choose which of his poems to post. This poem was written shortly before he was diagnosed with shell shock. This is a part of war that is not much talked about. The book “Beyond Valor” has a short final chapter which adresses wars’ ravaging of the mind. Tonight I will watch the film “Saving Private Ryan” for the opening 45 minutes just to remind myself that war is hell. My dad always instilled this thought in me…which he learned first hand as a paratrooper in Normandy, Holland and Belgium. I never really understood the hell that played over and over in his head until recently. It is too bad that war is still so glorified by the media and politicians…to whit “Mission accomplished”

Thank you Dervala for showing a little bit of the true nature of war. And why veterans should be honored for what they endured.

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