Lest we forget? a war to end all wars
Yet everywhere you look there are more and more!
We preach peace, we say no more
Still somewhere, on every continent, someone is at war!
Neighbour against neighbour brothers and sisters too
Always it is the innocents who do the suffering. What are we to do?
They are erecting giant Poppies to commemorate the start of the first world war.
It started in a foreign land, a duke was shot the result we know and more.
The first world war started in 1914 on the 28th of July
Sadly looking round the world , we have learned nothing . Can you tell me why?
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willowdot21 
If you could answer that question Willow, you could change the world. Nice SoCs post. Well done.
Thank you Paul. Do you like the giant Poppy?
It is neat. I looked up the day cause I thought it was a holiday or something in England. I couldn’t find anything. We do Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 each year with all the poppies and such. But I’ve never seen one that big before. I know you are enamoured of flowers, now i know it is flowers of any size. Ha!
Yes we also commemorate the end of the war on 11th Nov as you do. This is just a special celebration of the start of of the war.
Yes if only I could.
very poignant and sadly relevant to current events. It is sad that we’ve learned nothing in a hundred years.
Thank you Melissa it is unbelievable that in so much time we have learned nothing! xx
Where does the real answer lie and what IS it? ❤ ❤ ❤
Now if we could know that we would be laughing. 😀
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I’ve been asking myself these questions for years. Indeed, it is very sad that some believe war is necessary.
Thanks for adding this to SoCS, Willow. 🙂
My pleasure , like you the answer to this question evades me!
I wish we did know why we never learn anything, but keep proceeding with war anyway…very insightful post and beautifully written, too.
Thank you. I think we humans still have a lot to learn.
No I can’t answer it either but it occupies my thoughts for a long time :-(. Thanks for this great post
Thank you it is very distressing!
feelings mutual I just posted some thoughts on Twitter: “Why girls in Iraq & not in Syria? Why boys in Afghanistan & not in Gaza? And what if the powerful decide your child is not worth protecting?” My friends husband is from Syria. They lived for a while there and now they cannot go back. I just don’t get the whole thing. The whole war thing. I am from Germany living in Great Britain even more distressing believe me with all those WW remembrance things coming up. But that is probably the reason why I don’t get the whole thing….. 😦
Sadly war has been around since the first caveman picked up a rock and lobbed it at his neighbour! Sadly it has just escalated and got worse and worse!It is so sad that we just cannot get along together!
Well, I sometimes wonder if that is a kind of nature thing: There are too many people on the planet the resources get scarce so in peoples subconsciousness a switch get turned to: Must fight to survive!
I don’t know …………… very sad if that is the case, doesn’t say much for us does it! xx
No it doesn’t. My experience tells me though that no theory tells the whole truth of a situation. There is always more and often something better 🙂
Yes I know you are right there however dark things get, and they do look dark at times, there is always hope . Hope for something better. Yes we must never give up hope. xx
I entirely agree! Especially on a day like this 🙂
Yes if you the 100yrs commemoration of the start of WW1 we lighted a candle last night between 10pm and 11pm like many others. I still fear we have not learnt much. I hope we soon talk on happier subjects. Have s good day /night. 🙂 x
The same to you 🙂