Unecessary Flowers
If the dead who lie beneath these gravestones could speak, what would they say? That they gladly gave their lives as heroes? Or would it be of how terrified they were?
Maybe it would, and should be how unecessary the conflict was.
Normandy alone has the bodies of 9,000 soldiers. Thousands more are over the globe. Then there are the hundreds of thousands of allied, enemy, and civilian burials, with estimates ranging between 55 and 90 million.
Do you realize how many that is?
If we take the 90 million figure, and assign each one a year back into time, we’d have to travel 30 million years back towards the present in order to catch up with the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
That’s how much 90 million is.
I have read and seen numerous articles saying that only if the Allies had acted early on when Hitler’s aggressions began, the conflict would have been considerably less in scope, or may not even have happened.
Instead what we got was the Munich-Pact, with the promise of “Peace In Our Time.”
I find it curious that political pacifists, who consistently demonstrate and claim to want to save the lives of “innocents,” never talk about saving the lives of dead soldiers while they were still innocent too. After all, they died defending the very liberties that allow pacifists to express their displeasure openly.
Oh no, then, just like now, we get this vacant claim that “War Is Not The Answer!” And when you ask, “Great! What is the answer?,” there is none. And while government is paralyzed, and the actions needed to prevent the looming disaster thwarted by endless naive intellectual repartee, Hitler was arming the Third Reich.
So my short piece is dedicated to all those unnecessary flowers that are found in countless rows, in quiet, well-kept fields throughout the world.
Maybe it would, and should be how unecessary the conflict was.
Normandy alone has the bodies of 9,000 soldiers. Thousands more are over the globe. Then there are the hundreds of thousands of allied, enemy, and civilian burials, with estimates ranging between 55 and 90 million.
Do you realize how many that is?
If we take the 90 million figure, and assign each one a year back into time, we’d have to travel 30 million years back towards the present in order to catch up with the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
That’s how much 90 million is.
I have read and seen numerous articles saying that only if the Allies had acted early on when Hitler’s aggressions began, the conflict would have been considerably less in scope, or may not even have happened.
Instead what we got was the Munich-Pact, with the promise of “Peace In Our Time.”
I find it curious that political pacifists, who consistently demonstrate and claim to want to save the lives of “innocents,” never talk about saving the lives of dead soldiers while they were still innocent too. After all, they died defending the very liberties that allow pacifists to express their displeasure openly.
Oh no, then, just like now, we get this vacant claim that “War Is Not The Answer!” And when you ask, “Great! What is the answer?,” there is none. And while government is paralyzed, and the actions needed to prevent the looming disaster thwarted by endless naive intellectual repartee, Hitler was arming the Third Reich.
So my short piece is dedicated to all those unnecessary flowers that are found in countless rows, in quiet, well-kept fields throughout the world.