Shekaru tara da tara da suka wuce, a lokacin 11th na ranar 11th na watan 11th, karrarawa da ke kewaye da duniya, kuma mutane sun shiga cikin gari don tunawa da ƙarshen abin da ake kira War to End All Wars. Shekaru da dama, aka lura da ranar Armistice a matsayin ranar tunawa da mutuwar WWI kuma ya sake mayar da kanmu don kada yakin ya sake faruwa.
A wannan makon, tare da tallafi daga Hukumar Harkokin Jama'a ta NC, an sake kararrawa daga 24-foot-da-Swords zuwa Pledshares Memorial Bell Tower, abin tunawa wanda aka gina, don na hudu a jere shekara, a kan lawn na mu Capitol a Raleigh. Jama'a sun ƙara rubutu zuwa ga alama don shaida yadda yakin ya shafi rayukansu. Wadannan nau'in azurfa, waɗanda aka tsara daga gwangwani masu amfani da su a cikin iska, suna yin rubutun zuciya cikin harsuna da dama.
An rantsar da Bell Tower a ranar tunawa da ranar 2014 ta Eisenhower Chapter na Tsohon Soji don Cibiyar Aminci tare da tsohon jami'in Jami'ar Jami'ar NC State da kuma Babban Jami'in Harkokin Air Force Bob Kennel. Ruhunsa shine ƙofar tagulla a Cibiyar Tsaro ta NCSU, wanda take ɗauke da rubutun "Kuma Su Yarda Da Batunsu a Filaye." Wannan Maɗaukaki Tsohon Alkawali, mai tsarki ga Yahudawa, Kiristoci, musulmai da sauransu, shine tunatarwa na asalin Armistice Ranar.
A shekarar 1953, Shugaba Eisenhower ya ce, "Duk wata bindiga da ake yi, duk jirgin yakin da aka harba, duk wata roka da aka harba tana nuna… sata ce daga wadanda ke fama da yunwa kuma ba a ciyar da su, wadanda suke cikin sanyi kuma ba sa sutura." Amma shekara guda bayan haka, ya sanya hannu kan sanarwar da aka sake maimaita ranar Armistice a matsayin Ranar Sojoji. Tun lokacin da aka manta da WWI, tare da mantawa da manufar ranar, mun ga hauhawar fasisanci a Turai, abubuwan ban tsoro na WWII, Yaƙin Koriya, Yaƙin Vietnam da kuma “yaƙe-yaƙenmu na ta'addanci”. Yakin Talauci bai tsaya wata dama ba.
Ɗaya daga cikin hanyoyin da za a tura hanyoyin zuwa ga zaman lafiya shine tada haraji a kan yin makamai. Biyu daga Arewacin Carolin, Babban Jami'in Harkokin Jakadancin Amirka, Claude Kitchin da Babban Sakataren {asar Amirka, Josephus Daniels, sun yi} o} ari, a lokacin WWI, don maye gurbin dokar ba da rancen shugaban} asa, na Shugaba Wilson, wanda ya ha] a da haraji, game da dukiyar da ake samu. Duk da magoya bayan Kitchin, an karbe haraji na yakin basasa.
Abin baƙin ciki, Kitchin, babban mai adawa da shigar Amurka cikin zubar da jinin Turai, da Daniels, waɗanda suka buga abin da ya gabata ga News & Observer, su ma sun kasance masu ba da gudummawa wajen murƙushe wata ƙungiya mai ci gaba ta haɗin kai a Arewacin Carolina a cikin 1898. Yanayin launin fatar danniya sannan mmay sun shayar da kishin kasa wanda ya jawo mu zuwa yakin.
Abin da ya sa bidiyon Bell Tower ba shi da wani abu, ba tare da motsa jiki ba, shi ne keɓewa, "ga dukan tsoffin soji da wadanda ke fama da yaki, ba tare da kabilanci, bangaskiya, ko kabilanci ba." Maimakon samun gayyata zuwa tattaunawa mai gaskiya game da halin da ake ciki na yaki, an gaya mana mu tuna da wadanda suka "ba da ransu don 'yanci." Amma da yawa daga cikinsu, sojoji da kuma farar hula, an dauki su da gangan. Ubana, Birtaniya da Austrian, sun yi yaki a bangarori daban-daban a WWI. Shin, kowannensu ya yi imani da cewa suna fada don 'yanci?
A gefen yammacin Capitol, a kusa da kusurwa daga inda muka kafa ɗakunan mujallar Bell Tower, mun zama abin tunawa mai ban mamaki "Ga Matattu na Ƙungiyoyinmu." Na yarda cewa a tuna su. Amma, kamar yawancin tunawa da yaki, an gina wasu mutane da yawa tare da tunawa da kai wanda ya yi hadaya, ko kuma ya yi hadaya, a wannan yaki. Mene ne game da dubban 'yan Arewacin Carolin, fari da baki, wadanda suka yi yaki don Union? An fara kashe fararen hula da aka kashe ko suka mutu? Uwaye da uba da yara? Ko wadanda basu iya farfadowa daga raunin jiki da na zuciya da wadanda suka dauki rayukansu? Har ila yau, labarun su ma, ya kamata a gaya musu, kuma za ku sami su a cikin rubuce-rubucen da aka ƙara wa Bell Tower.
Wataƙila mafi mahimmanci amma mafi warkarwa na Bell Tower shine hada da rubutun da ke tunawa da wahalar "makiya." Na ƙara wa] annan litattafai na mahaifina. Wani sanadiyar tunawa da wani dan jarida na Amurka, Mike Hanes, ya sadaukar da shi ga "Dan kasar Iraki wanda ya mutu a cikin wani hari. Mutuwa a hannun abokina. Hoton da ban taɓa manta ba. "
Wannan ranar Armistice, bari mu - a dadewa - ta doke takuba a cikin shinge.
Roger Ehrlich abokin tarayya ne na Eisenhower Babi na 157 na Tsohon Sojoji don Aminci da kuma mahaliccin Takobin zuwa Plowshares Memorial Belltower, wanda za a gani a Capitol na Jiha har zuwa Nuwamba 11 kuma za a sake gina shi a kusa da Vietnam Memorial a Washington. , DC, Ranar Tunawa ta gaba.
