When War Is Justified

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Mozart Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Anniversary - Auschwitz Liberated
Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism (Germany)
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

 

Genocide is bad, kids. Remember that.

The fact that we have to have days to remind people of this says something rather sad about people, doesn't it?

Comments

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

Whenever I stop to think about WWII - really think - it totally blows my mind. I cannot fathom it.

There seems to be something quite nasty buried deep in human nature.

[principessar.livejournal.com]

I'm terrible with holidays -- er, holiday isn't the right word, but like a national day, I guess -- LOL in Russian I can say praznik and that sort-of means what I want to say. But, you know... I usually observe Holocaust rememberance day as Yom Ha Shoah, so is this also Yom Ha Shoah or not, because if it is I'll feel stupid for not knowing 0.0

I actually know better, as commemorative holidays for wwII -- May 8th and 9th, as Victory Day in Europe and Victory Day in Russia, respectively. But, I should know when Holocaust rememberance day is 0.0 Does your calander say when it is celebrated in Israel?

It seems a bit strange for me, though, to think of one day on which we have our thoughts about all of that. I mean people suffered and struggled and died every day for years and years, it seems strange to pinpoint one day and be like, 'we'll commemorate it today.' It makes sense to celebrate victory days, but to remember something that went on for years with a single day is strange. I, for one, probably think about wwII at least once every day but we all know how I am sort of obsessed with it. I wouldn't say it is necessary to be as so tied to the past as I am, but I think it should ideally be a constant consciousness rather than the sort of thing you can commemmorate in a day a year.

Actually I read an article in which the French want to maybe stop celebrating Nov 11th (Armistice Day of the first world war) and May 8th and wanna instead make a new holiday for like 'world peace and concordance day' and that really would upset me if it came to pass. we have to remember the wars!

Of course, constant thoughts on wwII should make one a more ... tolerant person, I suppose. I guess I fail at that because I get more and more afraid of Germans, Austrians, and Poles as times go by and I think the point is to become more understanding of people, not less. 0.0

Yeah I think I'm just rambling. when *is* Yom Ha Shoah? I think it's in the spring but I could be wrong because maybe I get it confused with Yom ha Zikkaron -- Israeli Memorial Day.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

I've visited Auschwitz. Some people say they don't hear birds singing there. I did. But it was a warm July day outside, and inside the camp it was cold. Something there will never forget.

I firmly believe that anyone who is, or who has any pretentions of becoming, a national leader (of any nation, and not necessarily the top rank, but anyone in the close line of succession) should visit at the very least Auschwitz and Hiroshima.

[du-futur-siecle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warm welcome home! :) I hope to keep up with LJ more often now that I have a more flexible schedule.I'm hoping that the work-from-home situation lasts. It's really nice to have such a flexible schedule and to be putting my "would-you-like-fries-with that" English major to really good, interesting use! That said, it's harrowing to research and compile a calendar of Bushisms. You honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry.

It's sad that we need reminding that fascism and genocide exist, and even sadder that there are conspiracy theorists who try to convince people that catastrophes like the Holocaust never happened. My father is Jewish, as is the rest of his family, and it's humbling to know that I have relatives in my family tree who were murdered so heinously.

In a world where privacy is whittled away one Patriot Act at a time and people's cell phones are practically fused to their ears, we're not so far away from a 1984-esque, totalitarian society as we think we are.

In lighter news, let us pause and remember the dearly departed Thomas Crapper...and Mozart, too.

[sunshine-shaman.livejournal.com]

I'm in a play about the Holocaust right now. It's a really hard hitting, heavy production that really means a me. It's called "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." And it's about a little girl and her experience in the Terezin Ghetto. It's an amazing play, and what our director did with it is absolutely brilliant. Backstage the cast cries throughout the whole thing, and there is absolutely sound from the audience as they watch this.

The director gave us an assignment in one of our rehearsals to go on a computer and look up the word "Holocaust" and then half way through the rehearsal he stopped us and said, "Now look up the word Genocide." We did, and were very impacted by this. So, we decided that all of the proceeds of our play would go to www.savedarfur.com

I guess to all of us, it makes our play meaningful, and raises awareness, so that something as awful as the Holocaust won't happen again. You should contribute to the cause too.