Interesting responses on remembrance. I think that what disturbs me is this. Sacrifice is obviously a core Christian value. It is not absent from today’s [secular] society but it is counter-cultural - see the response to the Warwickshire firemen. The challenge of Remembrance Sunday is largely to do with how one [...]
Posts Tagged ‘nationalism’
Remembrance again
Thursday, Nov 8th, 2007 by david | 3 Comments
Filed under: Blog Entry | Tags: freedom, nationalism, owen, patria
Filed under: Blog Entry | Tags: freedom, nationalism, owen, patria
Remembrance
Wednesday, Nov 7th, 2007 by david | 9 Comments
Filed under: Blog Entry | Tags: Birdsong, nationalism, remembrance
Filed under: Blog Entry | Tags: Birdsong, nationalism, remembrance
I’m struggling with Sunday at present. I get very emotional about the remembering thing - maybe because I’ve lived most of my life with strutting and posturing nationalisms and I detest them. Done the war poets - I think I’ll go back to Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong which remains the very best for me - the [...]