Armistice Day
Remembrance Day
Veterans Day
All these days fall on November 11. We forgot our history classes too easily because it was mundane about a group of over zealous clammering for World Domination. The pages of the book replay the same theme, 1 insane man becomes power hungry, motivates others to carry out his orders, rivers turn red with bloody losses, fields of food became battlegrounds for the egos, the pagans revolt, courage and honour precipitates, the tyrant is eliminaged and then the cheers of victory.
Sounds about right.
However with each turn of the war strategy, there are the brave, tall and honourable, whose sacrifice makes this rambling blog possible.
To all those in service,
To all those who served,
To all who will serve,
My hat tips,
And my poppy glows with pride.
to be continued .... getting sleepy
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Nov 10, 2009
22 years ago, the words were burnt into my soul, "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down this wall!" The distinct membrane separating freedom and communism, did fall 2 years later.
20 years later, assembled at the Brandenburg Gate were Mikhail Gorbachev, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the face which graced many of my essays, LECH WALESA. On the screen is an older but familiar face from 20 years ago. Not someone I really looked up to, but whose tenacity I admired. The Miner who freed Poland, united under "Solidarity". Who are missing from this gathering of historical figures? Let's examine, Perestroika is credited to Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa brought a country to their feet, Chancellor Merkel was a West German who now leads a unified Germany. Oh yes, Chancellor Helmut Kohl headed Germany 20 years ago is absent. The trio stood somber, as the rain mists, the obvious absence of another drapes this picture with a slight mourn.
No roar will be loud enough if we could hear President Ronald Reagan, standing alongside Gorbachev, "Gorby, give me a 5. We did it."
"If we don't fight for freedom, someday we will sit on our porch telling our grandchildren what it was like to live free."
And another daily lesson.
20 years later, assembled at the Brandenburg Gate were Mikhail Gorbachev, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the face which graced many of my essays, LECH WALESA. On the screen is an older but familiar face from 20 years ago. Not someone I really looked up to, but whose tenacity I admired. The Miner who freed Poland, united under "Solidarity". Who are missing from this gathering of historical figures? Let's examine, Perestroika is credited to Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa brought a country to their feet, Chancellor Merkel was a West German who now leads a unified Germany. Oh yes, Chancellor Helmut Kohl headed Germany 20 years ago is absent. The trio stood somber, as the rain mists, the obvious absence of another drapes this picture with a slight mourn.
No roar will be loud enough if we could hear President Ronald Reagan, standing alongside Gorbachev, "Gorby, give me a 5. We did it."
"If we don't fight for freedom, someday we will sit on our porch telling our grandchildren what it was like to live free."
And another daily lesson.
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