Remembering That War Is Never A Solution

Here in the wilderness, near the lake under a sea of sparkling stars, I have such peace as I watch the flames dance from my campfire.
Peace is something we take for granted but in fact each and every one of us owes many young men and women through the ages our gratitude for doing their best to fight for freedom, democracy and fairness in this world. In most cases they fought wars that did not have to happen and that were staged around deception.
On Remembrance Day, I think of my two grandfathers who fought in the First World War. James Kataquapit survived being uprooted by an over zealous military official who convinced him and 24 other boys from Attawapiskat to follow him south, then east to Halifax and finally the war in Europe. My other grandfather, John Chookomolin, did not survive as he succumbed to the Spanish flu soon after arriving on a troop ship in 1917 in England. He was part of the Canadian Foresters and today he lays in a very quaint and peaceful cemetery in Englefield Green near Windsor Great Forest in western London.
I am a history enthusiast and for many years now, I have been studying our past right from the early days of mankind to modern times. One thing I have discovered in all of the research I have done is that war has been a very common and regular occurrence of human existence.
That realization is more than a little depressing. Even though we have in general and on a personal and individual basis evolved to a civilization where we are less violent with each other, more tolerant and of the realization that our survival is based on finding ways to get along – there is still war.
War, I have discovered, is always about power, greed and the control of resources. Power brokers, governments and money people have been causing wars for many centuries based on religious, nationalistic and false flag incidents. Anytime those in power felt the need to increase their fortunes they simply devised situations that inflamed the public to go along with invasions, which resulted in making the very rich even richer. Time and time again young men and women have joined in to fight the good fight based on hidden agendas that made it seem right to go to war. They have proven to be fodder much of the time for unjust causes disguised as righteous wars. Millions of soldiers and civilians have been killed in wars over the centuries and countries, cities and towns destroyed so that the very wealthy and powerful manage to become even more wealthy and powerful.
It is sad to realize that even today the kings of commerce and industry direct governments and its peoples to invade countries to either protect their interests or to take over valuable resources. Although there have been enlightened periods and times of renaissance in our history, most of the time war has been a reality. It is strange to realize that as a civilization we have become better to each other but that those same greedy, controlling power brokers are still waging war to fill their pockets. This reality has evolved to the point where making war not only satisfies the goals of those wanting more domination and resources but it has turned it into a mammoth moneymaker. It really is a win-win situation for the dark side of humanity.
There does not seem to be much we can do stop war as a choice for those in power but perhaps at the very least we can come to the realization that nothing can justify such violent crusades. We must be more aware of the history of war and we should be very wary of jumping on nationalistic bandwagons built around expertly staged and promoted crisis and false flags with the intention of drawing us into bloody conflict to satisfy the appetites of what has become known as the military industrial complex.
This Remembrance Day, I will spend some quiet time recalling the reality of so much death and destruction caused by war and I will say my prayers that we as individuals will produce a way to pressure those in power to find other more peaceful ways to manage our planet. Sadly, it is my guess that if we do not do this we may be entering another one of those periods known as the dark ages. I would prefer a renaissance.