Armistice Day 2018
Remembering Armistice Day centenary in Paris, very significant, and London also very significant. Macron's speech enlightening, and a note on the attractions of world unity. However, one feels it would fall on deaf ears in some quarters. We should never forget and not allow youth to forget the sacrifices made.
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Albert Einstein