Today Ukraine (and most of the former Soviet states) had off in celebration of Victory Day!
May 9th marks the day that Nazi Germany signed a surrender document ending WW2......otherwise known as the 'Great Patriotic War' to the Soviet 'marketing machines'.
What does that look like?
Downtown, the President spoke & shook hands with the few veterans who are left
(Ukrainian men's life expectancy is only 63)
Closer to home, people walked around donning their / their family members' medals from the war....
...and held various random celebrations to honor those who served
The day sparked a lot of conversation and questions about WW2 and wars in general.
While explaining the nutshell history I vehemently injected my 'pro-peace' views:
- 'there are no real winners in war'
- 'killing people does not make sense - you should use words'
- 'It'd be like if we decided to take over our neighbor's house because we are 'better''
- 'war is just stupid' (gasp - a bad word!)
Meanwhile, the kids enjoyed the day off: Xavier at a laser tag party & Quincy playing Wii at a friend's......................both blowing the crap out of things
Here's to 'using your words' and giving peace a chance.
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