VJ Day 75 years on

It is the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day today.

A two minute silence was observed this morning at 11 am to commemorate the lives lost.

Hopefully people up and down the country took the time to remember the Japanese lives lost as well as the  Allies.

The end of World War II saw us enter the nuclear age, yet it also saw the beginning of real peace with Japan.

Japanese culture now filters over here in the form of Manga and Anime, as well as higher art.

The JET programme now pays British nationals to teach English in Japan.

We have truly made peace with our enemies.

What are the lessons learned to recreate lasting peace elsewhere?

I do not pretend to have the answers.

Don't panic, put your minds to the problems

After tonight's news I feel I have too much to write about.

So I will turn to the most heart breaking.

Isis are holding a British journalist.

The death of nearly anyone in war is a tragedy, that is what the upcoming Remembrance Day means in my mind.

It means remember the tragedy of every lost life.

As I turn to world conflict bathed in death after death and a Western culture swimming in ego I find my eyes turning to a sky where I believe no God resides.

Stop using journalists as instruments of war. 

Send him home unharmed, he comes to tell and not kill.

Let him go in peace.

Forgive, cease fire, rebuild your land with a ballot box and not a gun that is all I feel capable of saying.

Another kind of rememberance

I didn't post this on remembrance Sunday because it was one of those days, but looking at it, it seems appropriate. A blank space. Silence.