Temaet for i år er Drømme - dobbelthed, så lad os se, hvad der falder mig ind til det tema.
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Every day at noon (except Sundays) a new A-Z post goes live - or no post today.
The theme for this year, is Dream - Duality. let's see what crosses my mind on this theme.
H for Historie / History
Langsomt er der opstået et nyt koncept. De dage, jeg ikke allerede har et ord, tager jeg en random ord-generator til hjælp. I dag fik jeg: Historie. På Wikipedia er der to krigsrelaterede noter i dag:
1865 - I den Amerikanske borgerkrig kapitulerer Sydstaternes general Lee til Nordstaternes general Ulysses S. Grant ved Appomattox i Virginia, og borgerkrigen finder omsider sin ende.
1940 - Kl. 04.20 om morgenen meddeler den tyske gesandt i København, Renthe-Fink, den danske udenrigsminister P. Munch at "tyske tropper netop nu overskrider grænsen". Danmark var blevet besat af Nazi-Tyskland. - Tyskland besætter Norge. Oslo, Bergen, Trondhjem, Kristiansand, Egersund og Narvik blev angrebet, og efter to måneders kamp var hele landet besat.
Hvis man kigger i den engelsksprogede udgave finder man en hel del flere krigsrelatedere årstal i dag:
1784 - Paristraktaten, der blev ratificeret af USA's kongres den 14. januar 1784, ratificeres af kong George III i Storbritannien, hvilket afslutter den amerikanske revolutionskrig. Kopier af de ratificerede dokumenter udveksles den 12. maj 1784.
1917 - Første Verdenskrig: Slaget ved Arras: Slaget begynder med et canadisk korps, der udfører et massivt angreb på Vimy Ridge.
1918 - Første Verdenskrig: Slaget ved Lys: Det portugisiske ekspeditionskorps bliver knust af de tyske styrker under det, der kaldes forårsoffensiven i den belgiske region Flandern.
2003 - Irak-krigen: Baghdad falder til amerikanske styrker.
Hvor længe endnu før 2. verdenskrig relegeres til de samme støvede hylder som disse andre krige? Jeg havde håbet på at det var sket efter jubilæet for et par år siden. Der er ikke længere noget levende menneske, der har deltaget i den krig, og efterhånden er det også småt med folk, der virkelig kan huske den.
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Slowly a new concept has emerged for the A-Z Challenge. For those days, where I do not already have a word, I consult a Random Word Generator. Today I had: Historie - History. At the Danish Wikipedia for today I find two war realted items:
1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway. (Much longer and high-strung in Danish).
At the English Wikipedia I find several more:
1784 – The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
2003 – Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
I had hoped that the Danish high-strung interest in WWII had ended with the jubilee a few years ago. As all the people active in that war has now died, I would like it to be relegated to the same dusty shelves where all these other wars seem to be stored.
On the war front we seem to be incapable (or perhaps unwilling) of learning. Which both saddens and angers me.
SvarSletWhen will they ever learn ...
SletWe have a precious few WWII veterans still living. We need to remember and learn from it, something i'm afraid we are terrible at doing.
SvarSletI'm certainly not against learning from veterans. I'm against not learning from ALL wars, and I'm quite sad about the war-sentimentality adhering to WWII.
SletI agree, we're terribly bad at learning the lesson from history.
I'm not a fan of history as I once was. I was excited to learn it in school until I discovered we were only learning about all the English Kings and Queens and Australian history centered around the days the first fleet arrived here from England, with a little bit learned about the convicts and nothing at all learned about how the native aboriginals were slaughtered and enslaved.
SvarSletThen there were the wars. WW1 and WW2. Where was the history of ordinary peoples and how they lived?
Well in schools today it's amlmost the other way around - the ordinary peoples thing at least. But trust me, ordinary peoples' lives in the wiking ages and middle ages up till fairly recently can be described in two words, Tough and short. And until people began reading and writing we even do not know very much.
SletI would like our history lessons to be less nationalistic, more history of the whole world.