Today is about remembering.
Remembering those who gave their lives so that we enjoy the freedoms that we have.
Yet.
We're a long way from the Mother Of All Bombs in Afghanistan, a long way from Sarin gas attacks in Syria...yet in our communities we have stubbornly high rates of children being hurt and killed...stubbornly high rates of domestic violence...
Because we forget.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that"
Martin Luther King Jr
#anzac
#lestweforget
#onlylove