thank God that the greatest generation weren’t pacifists. we’d all be saluting the führer & opening death camp chains. wake up man. WWII wasn’t vietnam, it wasn’t about the love of death or war or money or oil but love of freedom & dignity for all people.
You could maybe be a bit more polite. I realize that others suffered and died to safeguard the freedom that I enjoy. But even knowing that, I am also “kind of a pacifist”.
You can call me a wimp or naive or whatever you want to, but that doesn’t make my personal, moral, and spiritual struggle any easier to get through.
Even though we are technically a nation at war, we have no idea what that entails. Our grandparents did, and that is why they had no qualms about printing the above posters.
The tepid response these posters get today just reinforces my belief that we are not worthy of our ancestors.
ew. the message/image of that last one especially creeps me out.
I always feel awkward seeing these sort of things. Never know how to respond. I’m kind of a pacifist.
Ian, They fought and many died so you could be ‘kind of a pacifist’.
I heard Mark Driscoll make the following statement once:
“You can be a pacifist if you like…those of us who aren’t have got your back.”
Perfect.
thank God that the greatest generation weren’t pacifists. we’d all be saluting the führer & opening death camp chains. wake up man. WWII wasn’t vietnam, it wasn’t about the love of death or war or money or oil but love of freedom & dignity for all people.
You could maybe be a bit more polite. I realize that others suffered and died to safeguard the freedom that I enjoy. But even knowing that, I am also “kind of a pacifist”.
You can call me a wimp or naive or whatever you want to, but that doesn’t make my personal, moral, and spiritual struggle any easier to get through.
I should point out that I’m a different Andrew which should be fairly obvious from the content. :)
Even though we are technically a nation at war, we have no idea what that entails. Our grandparents did, and that is why they had no qualms about printing the above posters.
The tepid response these posters get today just reinforces my belief that we are not worthy of our ancestors.
Working for a defense contractor, I get to see posters with themes similar to the latter two often.
But typically far cheesier and annoying.
Funny how propaganda isn’t considered propaganda when it’s coming from our own government.
i remember seeing this one in England
http://robinrile.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/loose-lips-sink-ships-posters.jpg
But this one, ah, the ‘good ole days’.
http://www.thecityreview.com/lonwar3.gif