I actually made a quick Remembrance Day post over on another blog, when it was actually Nov. 11, and it didn’t even occur to me to do so here until now. I’m always late to the party anyway.
Whatever the case, Remembrance Day as such is much more noticeable over here–we didn’t get a day off school for Veterans’ Day or anything, but I saw dozens of people wearing those stylized little poppies and wish I’d gotten one. WWI was the first truly modern war, but it was also a horrific waste of an entire generation of young men that really only accomplished a couple things–shuffling some territory around and setting the stage for WWII. But none of that means the soldiers who fought in it should be forgotten. It’s nice to see that over here, at least, they’re remembered as a little more than an excuse for a day off work.
mp3: God Is an Astronaut – Remembrance Day (buy)
mp3: Coldplay – Prospekt’s March / Poppyfields (buy)
mp3: Vienna Teng – Antebellum (buy)
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