War and Remembering

I am overwhelmed with Remembering. What do they want me to remember? Dead boys? Girls? Old men? Dead people? Living people? Non-canadians? How about black or native canadians? What if you are a bad soldier? Bad weapons company? What if the Good War killed millions of innocents and degraded their land to torched toxic earth?

What if I would never hit or kill another? Should I still celebrate? Should I celebrate or remember? In 200 years, after 12 more wars, will remembrance day be just another shopping holiday? Like christmas? I wasn't there for that either, yet we remember celebrate and party like it's december 25, 00 AD?

I am glad nazis no longer gas to death groups they don't like.
Yet china kills tibetan monks.
Palestinian children have no homes or food or security.
Vietnamese children still have their legs blown off from mines of wars 40 years ago.
Veterans live lonely lives, crippled and unsupported.
America pours pepper spray into the eyes of young girls who want to save a forest.
Canada can shoot, taser and sound wave you into obedience or death.
Leonard Peltier and Aung San Suu Kyi are still in prison.
Rumsfeld helped coordinate vietnam, cia in iran, central america, korea, nuclear proliferation, gulf war, falklands, iraq, afghanistan, aspartime, tamiflu and searle -monsanto. Cheney's resume includes haliburton.

I remember dead people -by celebrating life, not honouring war or the war machine, mongers or military complex.

Grandpas, brothers, sons. Now daughters. History.
But we need truth in our deliberations. Not emotion and innuendo.
Please don't kill on my behalf, I would rather sacrifice my own life than have the machine kill on mass. And when the taliban or vietcong come for me, I will deal in my own way. I too, am not afraid to die. But I do not want to kill.