Remembrance

November 12, 2007

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You remember it, right? That big filthy auditorium, the stifling hot atmosphere, and the bunch of geezers crying their eyes out for nuthin, right? Every year, on November 11, at 10:00 am, you would go to the auditorium with your whole class, sit their listening to stupid stories about some war that never hurt nobody, and staring at old pictures that you can't even tell what it's of. All of us kids were too busy to notice, too busy laughing, too busy joking around, too busy doing nothing. Of course maybe I'm the only one left who remembers, but back then, it just didn't seem important, the rest of the world went on as usual on November 11th.

Guess they should change the date shouldn't they? December 21st. We were still too busy. Too busy enjoying ourselves, too busy watching TV, too busy talking on MSN, too busy doing nothing. Too busy to notice it. 6.5 billion people... all so busy. That's what everybody was so proud of, and yet, majority of it crumbled under the Bane's monstrous feet. Everybody says we were caught off guard, and we didn't know what hit us, but in my opinion, those are excuses. We took too many things for granted, and took nothing seriously, we lived without regard for things around us. You could call the Bane, demons from hell. You can also call them human cleansers. Maybe we did need to get back into reality, maybe we do need to fight. Those geezers back then didn't take things for granted, because they fought. They went to hell and back, and know what it's like. Four years of hell in WWI, 7 years of hell in WWII, and we're whining after 5 days.....

Now is the time for our war, and now we must fight. There is a time to remember those who gave their lives, and there is a time to stop thinking about the past, and do what's important.

Grab that rifle soldier, we have sentry duty down at Delta Outpost. Kill come crusties, or at least, make your life meaningful enough to remember.

~H. Fung