re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Tomorrow is Veterans’ Day

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Everywhere else, tomorrow is Remembrance Day, the end of WW1. As a veteran, I get real tired, real fast, of having November 11 being highjacked to slobber over Vets when everyone in Europe is acknowledging the death of 1/3 of a generation, another 1/3 of a generation who were wounded, and the other lucky 1/3 who weren’t wounded but often suffered grueling psych wounds.

I went to the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle on my first trip there in 2007. I walked in, looked at the dead- the sheer fucking *number* of dead recorded on the walls, Unit by Unit. and sat down and cried my eyes out for half an hour. Docents came up to me and asked if I was OK. I just shook my head and said “I had no idea what this small country sacrificed.”

I was absolutely bereft.