Remembrance Day

Despite only having one follower (thanks jade) i'm going to keep this going for my own boredoms sake.

Tomorrow is November 11, also known as remembrance day, i don't take remembrance day to seriously, i just see it as a time to reflect, to look back and think "shit, am i lucky."
i get worried about my homework, yet if i was born 80 or so years ago i could be worrying about dying. This brings me to what got me in photo class today, of course the school doesn't care enough to give an assembly, and they give an announcement and a few stories about the war, and then play a song. Good job, really- is it to much effort to do something that will actually catch kids attention? Bring a veteran in, ask him/her to tell some stories, and turn some heads. While we have our moment of silence, it's just not enough to do it for some kids. Instead of at least being respectful, they giggle, they play with scissors and make confetti and laugh out loud at it. When people shoot them dirty looks, they respond with laughs, as is people take themselves to seriously. NO - people are thankful, people are smart- not like you, you lack every ounce of possible sympathy or thanks that our veterans deserve, so - my respect goes to the ones who fought, and my lack of respect goes to you.

Another thing that can't leave my mind is that all our thoughts seem to go to wars in the past, such as the second world war. "Never Again" is what they said, really?. It looks like the world may have forgotten that, namely America, one of the countries that takes remembrance day more seriously than a lot of other countries, that is also breaking international law with it's current foreign policy in Iraq. This makes me sick.

On the lighter side- check out this band called Beirut - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfAmkKRcFU&feature=related - good stuff, it's like David Byrne doing indy folk.