In Memory: Guernica
Today is Monday, 26 April 2010.
On this date in 1937, ironically also a Monday, Nazi bombers of the Condor Legion ravaged the small Spanish village of Guernica, in the first truly-successful air raid.
(And don’t our societies honour “firsts”!)
Ironically also, this afternoon, just as I chose to write something about Guernica, planes of the Oklahoma Air National Guard flew at low altitude over our house, as they often do, since we’re in a convenient traffic pattern for the often-prevailing winds, as related to our local international airport.
What can I say? Repeat myself, and repeat many others who denounced war crimes, and how much was listened?
This following is brought to my attention in an article by Rachel Galvin:
"The politician wants people to know how to die courageously; the poet wants people to live courageously."
—Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, Nobel lecture, 1959
On this date in 1937, ironically also a Monday, Nazi bombers of the Condor Legion ravaged the small Spanish village of Guernica, in the first truly-successful air raid.
(And don’t our societies honour “firsts”!)
Ironically also, this afternoon, just as I chose to write something about Guernica, planes of the Oklahoma Air National Guard flew at low altitude over our house, as they often do, since we’re in a convenient traffic pattern for the often-prevailing winds, as related to our local international airport.
What can I say? Repeat myself, and repeat many others who denounced war crimes, and how much was listened?
This following is brought to my attention in an article by Rachel Galvin:
"The politician wants people to know how to die courageously; the poet wants people to live courageously."
—Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, Nobel lecture, 1959
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