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Dr. Jemma FitzSimmons (dissectsthings) wrote in wariscomingcom,
@ 2014-11-11 11:09:00

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becker, catherine glass, danny walker, hal yorke, james kirk, jemma simmons, john mitchell, marcel gerard, steve rogers/captain america

In Flanders' Fields
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.

John McCrae

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needstheroutine
2014-11-13 10:10 am UTC (link)

War isn't what it was. Never has been since those bombs in the 40's.

Like you say, we remember mud, and a camaradrie with the other combatants, though different in ideology or country. No shared language, no shared belief. But that fear. That knowledge that it was you or them.

That shaped us all.

Though your war shocked me. I know they say it a lot but there had been nothing on that scale. Not in my lifetime and I doubt very much before.

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	onthefringes 2014-11-13 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	War should be messy and painful and harsh. These bombs and now the drones, it makes it too impersonal. War from the boardroom. The fear is needed. Remembering that the other side is feeling just the same. All these decades later, I'm still not sure what that war was actually over. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needstheroutine 2014-11-18 12:43 pm UTC (link)
	Do you know the greatest fear I have for that? How impersonal it becomes, its no longer life but dots on a screen, numbers in a ledger. It scares me that it has become so simple to wipe out life. What is war ever over? ideology, difference in culture, in belief. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onthefringes 2014-11-18 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	Scares me too. Someone somewhere presses a button on a computer and half a world away a town gets wiped out from a drone or a chemical bomb. Shouldn't be that way. Seemed to me it was about jealousy over empires. Alliances and favours being called in all over the place, a Duke getting shot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needstheroutine 2014-11-20 10:55 am UTC (link)
	No it absolutely should not. But such is the world we created. Basically yes, one act sparked off a million others. And I must admit to feeling I had a bit of a hand in it given how bad things had gotten with the werewolves. In many ways one made the other worse (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	howcouldiask 2014-11-20 11:40 am UTC (link)
	It wasn't just you, Hal. And, that was only in our world. These others, still had the war and it had nothing to do with our war. Because that didn't exist there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needstheroutine 2014-11-20 11:57 am UTC (link)
	Oh I'm aware of that. This isn't self pity or anything, just the truth. Indeed. But I expect each world had its own factors, there's the big obvious ones that lead to it in every world, but I expect each world had a few different building blocks from the norm. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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