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Big Auntie honoured her former fellow resistance fighters with a long & somber incense filled ceremony at her home today. We have never attended any colonial public remembrance day ceremonies - except when me & my brothers were forced to, in our public school times, which was mandatory for all students. We have spent some time during past remembrance days with some Canadian veterans here, who have dedicated the rest of their lives to fighting for peace. Despite them being called traitors by folks who enjoy war/violence more than working very hard towards peace. They are the real heroes from past war times - they understand wars should NEVER be glorified but avoided.
#Resistance against imperialism & colonialism is in my blood. It goes back much further than the USA invasion on Vietnam. It goes back several generations on both my patriarch & matriarch ancestors sides. Several of my ancestors in China were murdered by imperialists for resisting indoctrination & trying to fight back. Several of my ancestors in Vietnam were murdered by French colonizers while fighting back & trying to protect their families & ancestral lands. Part of my ancestral duties is to keep on resisting the colonial/imperial evil forces. I owe at least that, to all my ancestors who sacrificed their lives so I could live & speak out, today.
We usually follow up past martyred ancestors day with a day of honouring all children. It's important to me as a surviving war child that childrens' lives lost are fully honoured too. We end those ceremonies with blessings for the children of today.
I have never understood, since my childhood years, why we have huge public ceremonies for people who got paid to go to war & kill people they don't know for someone who is willing to use them as cannon fodder but they don't have big public ceremonies for all the victims of wars & any speeches from the survivors of horrific war crimes committed by many people with a ton of medals on their clothes.
The peace activist veterans I am still friends with get together to do community work like serving in community kitchens, helping elderly/disabled with errands, etc on this day. They've skipped the public ceremonies on purpose & I have mass respect for them 
@PhoenixSerenity Thinking on Veterans Day today...
I don't know any WWII vets still alive so I can't thank anybody for defending freedoms.
And the best thing I can think to do for anyone more recently in the services is to be a country which deserved their dedication and sacrifice, which we also fail to do very regularly.
We just send people arbitrarily to kill and to die. Presumably it's profitable for somebody but overall it's basically just for entertainment as far as I can tell.
@gooba42 War survivors have ZERO PTSD/CTPSD therapy funding assistance despite us being unable to leave when we were under violent sieges. The victims of war receive zero government help for the most part. We are left to just try & deal by ourselves for the most part. There is zero funding to help us out with Western government military terrorism violence. We are the mass forgotten ones. The ones who murdered our family members get medals & big public remembrance ceremonies. Yeah - I'm bitter for valid reasons. It's glorifying mass murders & leaving the victims out of everything.
@PhoenixSerenity Absolutely.
In the US we haven't lost any *declared* wars and have that much padding added for us never to perceive ourselves as victims and in doing so, keeping our empathy for other victims to an absolute minimum.
Doing hard things like caring for others is considered "too soft" because nothing makes sense anymore.
@gooba42 Caring about others is a really hard-core thing in these times of neoliberal selfishness.
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