Veterans Day

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There’s so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun’s gone to hell
And the moon’s riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die

But it’s written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We’re fools to make war
On our brothers in arms -Dire Straits
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It's Veterans' Day in America. A time when we remember the Treaty of Versailles signed at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. A diplomatic end to a gory and hard fought World War I. It is a day we remember the grim reality and sacrifice our citizen soldiers gave to live freely in America and Europe. Unfortunately it did not end all war.

Some TV stations are choosing not to show 'Saving Private Ryan' because of the violence but I think that it's right to show it. We bemoan the violence in Hollywood but I think realistic violence serves the opposite purpose. It's parents responsibility to watch it with their (older) children and maybe start a dialogue. Few soldiers talk about combat but Steven Spielberg has done it for them so that others won't forget.

We pray for those in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.

We’re fools to make war on our brothers in arms...