Whether it was

A Soviet political protester, psychologically driven to madness in the gulags

An innocent Japanese civilian, fallen to radiation sickness from the atomic bombs

Or a British soldier, slaughtered in the grisly battle of the Somme

 

Their deaths are remembered, will not be forgotten

But have they been honoured?

The dying wishes of the Soviet, slowly driven insane by the harsh labour, the freezing weather?

Or of the Japanese civilian, nauseated and killed by a bomb dropped by an army playing political mind games?

Or the British soldier, driven to madness by the shell shock, the slimy, muddy trenches, the hopelessness in the air?

And what do you think their dying wish was, on their deathbed, killed by a conflict in which they were forced to participate?

 

It was peace.

Eternal peace.
Nothing like the World Wars 

Should ever be allowed 

To happen again.

And that is the truth;

the eternal truth.

 

And in these times

Of political division

Of political correctness driven insane

Of families torn apart by political beliefs

We must remember

As a society 

A human race

We cannot let what happened last century

Ever happen again.

 

And so that is what peace

Eternal peace 

Means to me.

Yes, we should remember those deaths

But most importantly, we should 

Honour them.

 

Don’t leave them to die in vain.