By Jack Gilroy, Nuwamba 2, 2018
daga Syracuse.com
Shekaru dari da suka wuce wannan Nuwamba. 11, babbar yakin, yakin duniya na, ya ƙare. Mutane a duk duniya sun yi farin ciki kuma suna murna da ƙarshen tashin hankali, lokaci don bayyana zaman lafiya. A shekara mai zuwa, 1919, ranar da ake kira Armistice Day. Ba rana ba ne don tunawa da yakin da mayaƙa amma rana daya don bikin zaman lafiya.
Gwamnatin Birtaniya da Jamus sun fito da wani hadin gwiwa ta musammanzuwa ga al'ummomi a fadin duniya don sakin cocinsu da sauran karrarawa a unison a 11 a ranar Armistice, Nuwamba 11, 2018, don tunawa da shekara ɗari da ƙarshen kisan kisa.
Lokaci ya yi da Amurkawa za su Ranar Armistice.
A cikin 1954, mun bar sunan "Armistice Day" kuma muka ɗauki "Ranar Tsohon Soji." Mun maye gurbin ranar godiya ta godiya tare da ranar girmama jarumai. Wannan ba shine nufin tsoffin soji na Yaƙin Duniya na 450. Tsoffin sojoji sun yi farin ciki ba da sauran manyan bindigogi da zagayen turmi da ke yawo a cikin gawarwakin matasa, da huhun iskar gas da ke huɗa huhu da ƙone fata, ƙarshen bindigar mashin da ke shirya zagaye XNUMX a cikin minti ɗaya, makaman dodon mutuwa kamar tankoki, da jiragen sama masu makami da suka kashe miliyoyi don Daular. Mutane sun yi makoki don yawancin talakawa da sojoji masu aiki waɗanda aka tsara ko yaudara ta hanyar ba da labari da ƙaryar ƙarya.
Lokacin da aka ayyana Ranar Armistice shekara guda bayan yakin ya ƙare, mutane sun fara fahimtar cewa zubar da jini ba game da ƙarfin zuciya ko ɗaukaka ko lambobin yabo ko sabis ba ne, amma game da iko da kuɗi. Kawai a cikin Amurka kawai, an sanya sababbin masu kuɗi 15,000 a cikin ɗan gajeren lokacinmu a yaƙin Turai. Dan jam'iyar Republican Herbert Hoover, darektan hukumar kula da abinci a gwamnatin dan Democrat Woodrow Wilson, ya taƙaita lamarin da cewa: "Tsofaffi maza suna shelar yaƙi amma matasa ne ke yaƙi da mutuwa. Zai iya ƙarawa "waɗanda suke yaƙi kuma suke mutuwa saboda ƙaryar attajirai da masu iko."
Rory Fanning, wani tsohuwar rundunar soja na Amurka, tare da wasu nau'i biyu a Afghanistan da Iraki, ya rubuta: "Yana kara fitowa fili karara a kowace shekara cewa Ranar Tsoffin Sojoji ba ta girmama girmama tsoffin sojoji ba face batun sassauta lamirin masu laifi na wadanda suka tura wasu su kashe su mutu saboda dalilan da ba su da alaka da dimokiradiyya da 'yanci."
Kurt Vonnegut, ɗayan manyan marubutanmu na Amurka, ya rayu cikin baƙin ciki na Yaƙin Duniya na II yayin da yake sojan ƙasan Amurka a Turai. Wani mutum a fim ɗin “Breakfast of Champions” na Vonnegut ya ce: “Ranar Armistice ta zama Ranar Tsoffin Sojoji. Ranar Armistice ta kasance mai tsarki. Ranar Tsohon Sojoji ba. Don haka, zan jefa Ranar Tsoffin Sojoji akan kafaɗata. Ranar Armistice zan kiyaye. Ba na son zubar da abubuwa masu tsarki. Ranar Tsohon Soji tana murna da 'jarumawa' kuma tana ƙarfafa zuwa kashewa da kashewa a cikin yaƙi na gaba - ko ɗayan yaƙe-yaƙe na yanzu. ”
Tsohon soji na yankin Broome yana so ya sake dawowa ranar Armistice. Ƙungiyarmu ta yi roƙo ga dukan majami'u a Binghamton don yin salula a 11 ranar Lahadi, Nuwamba 11, don tunawa da ranar tunawa da 100th na yakin duniya na 1. Muna roƙon majami'u Syracuse su shiga mu ta yin karin murmushi 11 sau a 11th hour na Ranar 11th na watan 11th.
Tsohon soji don Aminci www.veteransforpeace.org aririce dukan majami'u na Amurka tare da karrarawa don taimakawa Tsohon soji don zaman lafiya reclaim Armistice Day. Bari mu yi murna da yakin basasa, ba dakarun ba.
A 1 a ranar Lahadi, Nuwamba 11, Tsohon Sojoji na Zaman Lafiya a Birnin Binghamton za su ba da 'yan kallo Armistice Day to masu kallo (na Tsohon Farko) a matsayin tunawa da tsoron dukan yaƙe-yaƙe. A wannan rana, a kan Lawn of First Congregational Church, kusurwar Main da Front, Binghamton, da Stu Naismith Chapter Tsohon Soji don Aminci zai sami hurumi wanda ya kwatanta mutuwar na Vietnam da kuma Iraqi / Afghanistan wars. Za a nuna ragowar 'yan Amurkan da suka mutu ga mutanen Vietnam, Iraqi da Afganistan a cikin kaburbura masu kabari.
Dole ne mu fahimci mummunar mummunan halin mutum na yaki don hana mu sake yin yaki.
