Remembrance Sunday

Meditation – Remembrance Sunday

We approach Remembrance Sunday with ambivalent feelings. No right-minded person enjoys war; we all know the cost in lives, devastated cities, ruined landscapes and grief. We know about “collateral damage”, the indiscriminate slaughter, the unintended victims, the losses brought about by error. News bulletins bring us word of the chaos, privation and disease that come in the wake of war, and we see how, from the ravaged lands, spill the wounded, the dispossessed, the fearful and the furious. None of us wants to glorify strife within or between nations...

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