#Remembrance

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André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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There is a cemetery in the Netherlands with over 8,000 U.S. WWII veterans' graves. For over 70 years, Dutch families have visited the cemetery every week to tend to graves they have adopted. Currently, hundreds of people are waiting for a chance to become caretakers.

[nocternalrandomness]

[salvadorbonaparte]

Disappearance as Presence

Fábula y Rueda de los Tres Amigos - Federico García Lorca // Nineteen Seventy Three - Sebastián Picker // Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll - dir. John Pirozzi // Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA) - Félix González-Torres // Hall of Names - Yad Vashem

[dontforgetukraine]

Residents of Kharkiv laid out flowers and toys on park benches in remembrance of the 14-year-old girl killed by a Russian glide bomb on August 30th. She was sitting on such a bench near a playground when the strike occurred. It decapitated her and tore her head apart. Ordinary russians on Telegram celebrate her spilled blood that stained the brick walkway and mock her corpse.

This girl had just begun to recover from the loss of her father, who had previously gone missing in the Donetsk area. Now, a mother has to grieve for her only child. Her body shakes as she struggles through the tears and shock. If the sound of her weeping in the video below doesn't spark some outrage and compassion in you after all this time, I don't know what will.

This is the price of escalation management. Ukraine being able to hit the airbases used to send these bombs could have reduced the possibility of this tragedy occurring.

Ukraine should send the autopsy reports of every citizen killed by Russia's missiles and bombs to every Western partner, especially the Biden administration.

Source: Suspilne Translation credit unknown.

[theworldatwar]

Runners from the British 79th Infantry Division’s 315th Regiment spread the word to cease firing at 11 a.m. on the last day of WWI. From left are Pvt William Wachter, Pvt RD Thompson, Pvt JJ Mulcahy and Pvt John McCaughtry - 11th Nov 1918. CREDIT : National WWI Museum and Memorial

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Rest in eternal grace Judith Jamison

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“If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.” ― Judith Jamison, Dancing Spirit

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“The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.” ― Judith Jamison, Dancing Spirit

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“Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.” ― Judith Jamison

[balkanparamo]

Remembrance of Things Past: Abi Dionisio

[bantarleton]

To commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, a short thread of photos colourised by DBColour (Colourising History on Facebook). Descriptions run from top-to-bottom.

Piper Bill Millin, seen here landing on Sword Beach with his bagpipes with Lord Lovat’s Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade. IWM B 5103.

Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade after landing on Queen Red beach, Sword area, 6 June 1944. British Airborne troops smile from the door of their Horsa glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the second drop on Normandy on the night of 6th June 1944. LCI(L) 135 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla carrying personnel of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the Highland Light Infantry of Canada en route to France on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN Nº. 3205043) Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.

LCA (Landing Craft Assault) containing soldiers from the Winnipeg Rifles head for the Normandy Juno beach - June 6, 1944.

Commandos approach Sword Beach in a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). Ahead, the beach is crowded with tanks and vehicles of 27th Armoured Brigade and 79th Armoured Division.

Troops of 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red beach, Sword area, circa 0845 hrs, 6 June 1944. In the foreground are sappers of 84 Field Company Royal Engineers. Behind them, medical orderlies of 8 Field Ambulance, RAMC, can be seen assisting wounded men.

A Horsa glider near the Caen Canal bridge at Benouville, 8 June 1944. No. 91 (PF800), carried Major John Howard and Lieutenant Den Brotheridge of No.1 Platoon, 'D' Co., 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the early hours of D-Day. © IWM B 5232

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The Princess of Wales attending the Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London over the years || 2011 ~ 2024.

[grandmaster-anne]

10 November 2024 Service Of Remembrance At The Cenotaph

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"There was nothing but sour wine in me, and that was all for the best, how can a man become better if he's not bad."

Albert Camus ☆– The Renegade; Exile and the Kingdom

Birthday Remembrance: Today, on November 7th 1913 Albert Camus, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, journalist and Nobel Prize Laureate was born. We remember him with L♡ve. Always and forever.

[photo credit: bjorn8383 Pinterest]

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On this Remembrance Sunday, we honor those who gave everything for our freedoms. Their courage, sacrifice, and resilience remain woven into the fabric of our lives. Let’s not just remember but strive to be worthy of what they defended. Thank you for all who have served and still serving today our country is in your debt.

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in Spanish, “to be dead” translates as “estar muerto.”

and I think that’s important — in Spanish there is “estar” and “ser,” which both translate as “to be,” even though they mean different things.

“estar” is temporary. people say “estar bien” which means “to be okay,” but the reason “estar” is used instead of “ser” is because people are not always okay. emotions and mood change, they’re not permanent, you won’t always be okay and sometimes you will be okay.

“ser” is fixed. constant, like “ser persona” which means “to be a person.” to be a person will never change, so “ser” describes an identity, a trait. it is a way to differentiate: “ser persona,” to be a person, and “ser gato,” to be a cat. to be who and what you are isn’t temporary, it was always that way, and it will remain that way.

now, you’d expect death to be described with “ser,” it’s permanent, right? “estar muerto” means “to be dead.”

because people weren’t always dead. if someone has died, it means that before, they were alive. you can only die if you have lived. “estar muerto,” because before being dead, people lived and breathed and smiled and cried, and now that they are dead, memories of them are still in your brain. remember the time they were alive and treasure it, because people are never gone forever. they live on in your brain, “estar muerto,” because death isn’t permanent when someone is alive through memories, legacy, stories passed down for generations.

let things change and let time move on after death, because if you don’t let yourself move on, that makes death permanent. time keeps going and you keep living, let the thoughts tick through your mind, remember those who are dead.

everyone who has died has made an impact, no matter how small. in order to die, one must live.

a newborn baby makes a parent smile. the baby, who has been alive for less than a second, is already living.

no one knows what happens after death, and maybe in that way it is also not permanent. but we do know what happened before death, and remember it, it changed and shaped the world in the slightest of ways. it changed and shaped you and you are part of this world.

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'Rite of Remembrance'. Madeline von Foerster. 2008.