Posted on 11/10/2018 4:18:22 PM PST by Nextrush
The Queen and senior royals attended a remembrance concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Armistice Day.
The annual Festival of Remembrance in London, which commemorates the war dead, included performances from Sir Tom Jones an Sheridan Smith.
It came ahead of Remembrance Sunday on 11 November, which this year marks 100 years since the end of World War One...….
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A weekend to remember but I hope a weekend to remember what war brings.
Death, Destruction, Misery and other Evils.
If WW I had not happened the world would have been so much better a place, but alas it did and we live with its consequences today.
The royal dynasties of Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey ended. The Global divide of socialism/freedom started. WWI didn’t begin or end war, just shifted the rationales.
Peter Hitchens speaks about war and his new book on World War Two-”The Phoney War”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u88e5zBgP3s
Perhaps so.
The notion that one age is more moral than the previous ones is a trap I have fallen into so easy.
Evil has always been with us and is with us at this moment.
You’re so right.
If WW I had not happened the world would have been so much better a place, but alas it did and we live with its consequences today.
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The events that flow from that war may still kill Western civilization.
Whatever the result, it will be a close run thing.
If WW I had not happened the world would have been so much better a place, but alas it did and we live with its consequences today.
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The events that flow from that war may still kill Western civilization.
Whatever the result, it will be a close run thing.
Surprised at this. They were fighting the Muslim Turks.
I watch this ceremony every year on YouTube. Always moving. They occasionally sing the great patriotic hymn I Vow to thee My Country.
It should be on YouTube in a couple of days. I highly recommend it.
If Wilson were not President America would have been so much better a place.
Regardless, the “Big Turk” himself is at the remembrance of the armistice this weekend in Paris.
Take Russia out of the equation because what arose from that transition was an internal evil.
What screwed up that period was how the victors handled the aftermath with the abominable Treaty of Versailles.
Also, WWI ushered in the Age of Anxiety where the Biblical God became distrusted and ridiculed. The Weimar Republic made the 1960s sexual revolution look like child’s play. Hell, even the sexual degenerency right now still does not match what occurred during the Weimar Republic.
The only dynasties on your list that should of been dissolved were the Ottamans. Are you suggesting the Bolsheviks were more desirable than the Tsarists?
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