Once again I am taking the time to celebrate Remembrance Day. As noted last year:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1226202

I've mentioned mostly the pattern of disrespect of the Holiday and I don't think this year is any different. However, that being said, much of the reason why people pull actions like this is pretty much the same reason why most people try to ruin everything for others. Simply because they don't like it. I don't know the exact name of this mentality, but until someone can correct me otherwise I'm calling it "Marge Simpson Syndrome". For those who only watched the Disney version of it, hear us Older Fans out. Marge Simpson, while an iconic character in her own right, became the definition of Wet Blanket and Moral Guardians gone mad. She first initially started out that way on a Simpsons Episode "Itchy & Scratchy and Marge" In which she accused the titular show of instilling violent tendencies on Maggie. Yet despite neither Lisa nor Bart (At least within this episode, it's still Bart), not being affected by it as much as Maggie is, Marge forces everyone in her house to stop watching and goes so far as start an all parents protest group. She succeeds, but said group ends up going behind her back to protest in her name against an art piece she happens to like. "Michelangelo's David." Long story short, they protest him because despite being thousands of years of historic Roman Art, he's naked. This was later brought up pointing out Marge's hypocrisy on how she can enjoy a nude statue simply because she views it as art, whilst she refuses to let her kids watch a violent cartoon, just because she happens to dislike it. Which seems silly until later on she literally says it word for word that she has to destroy stuff other people like, because she doesn't like it. And this in a later episode where she tried to protest MMA.

I used to laugh at people like this, because I never thought there was a way they could exist. However they do and if it's not TV show's they're going after it's a Memorial Holiday like this. By their logic, I should protest any holiday they happen to celebrate that honour their fallen. However I don't because that'd be disrespecting their dead. But I ramble on.

This Holiday, regardless of the context around it, was never meant to glorify, promote or even encourage future generations to take up an armed struggle perpetually. It was meant to celebrate what we as a human race all sacrificed, in the name of trying to attain and maintain peace. For the soldiers, it was literally life, limb, both or in the case of Johnny Got His Gun....worse. For those staying home, it was either time away from their loved ones to help the war effort on the home front or living in paranoia and fear that our friends and loved ones that may have joined, may not be coming back. As well as the fear that should everyone that got sent there died, the enemy, whomever they may be at the time would be marching towards us. Capturing or worse killing, anyone they consider an undesirable. In their twisted version of what the world should be like. We don't remember it for the people our relatives killed in Battle, we remember it for the fact that their decisions whether we agree with them or not, were done for our sake. Not the country or the government our sake. Those soldiers joined up, so we wouldn't have to. Now if some people on all sides took that hint, we wouldn't have this current bullshit problem we are still facing right now.

That said, like before, to those that celebrate, have a safe and happy Remembrance Day.