Rememberance

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

On this day we pause for a moment and remember all those who have fallen in the service of all nations. Be they friend or foe. There is a quote, made recently popular by the Fallout series. "War never Changes" It is true in one respect. The nature of war never does change. It is brutal, nasty and ultimately a waste of lives, material and potential. It also never changes in another respect.

War, like Winter, is always coming. Why? Another quote:

This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.

Humanity will never stop imagining. This site and others like it are concrete proof of that. We dream, we imagine, we share those imaginings with others. We will stop imagining the day we stop being human. And because we never stop imagining we also never stop imagining ways and reasons to be crappy to our fellow humans. Maybe one day,

For now, a moment, for those who fell.
Read by Leonard Cohen, who died yesterday