Los ntawm Kathy Kelly, Kaum Ib Hlis 10, 2017, Qhov Progressive.
Wilfred Owen, yog ib tug kws sau ntawv Hmoob uas tau raug tua hauv kev ua haujlwm kiag li ib lim tiam ua ntej tus Cawm Seej thaum kawg tau xaus rau lub Ntiaj Teb Tsov Rog Thoob Plaws I, tau sau txog kev txaus ntshai ntawm kev ua neej nyob hauv kev tshee hnyo thiab thev ntawm kev ua tsov ua rog.
Tsuas yog nyob rau hauv qhov no, Aplaham tsis kam mloog tus tim tswv uas yaum kom tus tub raug tua. Tus yawg laus "tua tus tub, thiab ib nrab ntawm cov teb chaws Europe, ib tug los ntawm ib tug."
Peb caug lab cov tub rog tau raug tua los yog raug mob thiab lwm xya plhom raug ntes nyob rau lub sijhawm Ntiaj Teb Tsov rog I. Ib txhia 50 rau 100 lab tau raug kev puas tsuaj los ntawm kev mob ua npua uas tsim los ntawm kev ua tsov ua rog. "Tsis txhob ua ntej," sau tus kws sau ntawv thiab activist David Swanson, "muaj cov neeg pom zoo xws li kev ua lag luam, nrog kaum tawm txhiab ib hnub rau kev siv phom thiab tshuaj lom neeg."
Lub sab hnub poob Xya hli ntuj 11, 1918, lub hnub ua tsov rog los txog kawg, raws li nws tus me nyuam los ntawm ntshai heev.
Hauv 1938, Congress tshaj tawm hais tias Kev Ua Phem Rau Hnub Ua Haujlwm muaj kev cai lij choj rau kev ua kom muaj kev thaj yeeb thoob plaws ntiaj teb. Nyob rau hauv 1954 lub hnub so renamed Veterans Day thiab morphed mus rau ib lub sij hawm rau chij waving thiab ua tub rog parades.
Tam sim no, cov tswv cuab ntawm pab pawg neeg Veterans rau Kev Kaj Siab ua hauj lwm thoob plaws teb chaws Asmiskas kom rov qab tau lub hom phiaj tseem ceeb ntawm Hnub Ua Phem Hnub. Lawv tab tom siv rau kev hu xov tooj rau kev xav thiab kev pab txhawb nqa rau cov tub rog, kom pab lawv tiv thaiv cov kev ntshai uas lawv raug yuam ua kom qis. Tshaj tag nrho, lawv ua hauj lwm los mus ua kom muaj kev tsov kev rog.
Xyoo no nyob rau Nov. 11, tom 11 am, Cov Veterans for Peace chapters thoob plaws Tebchaws Meskas yuav nrov nrov, nco tias feeb hauv 1918 thaum, Kurt Vonnegut sau, "Tsheej plhom leej neeg ntawm tib neeg quavntsej nres ib leeg."
"Qhov kev tshwm sim no tsuas yog qhov kev nco txog keeb kwm xwb," hais tias Ed Flaherty, ib tug tswv cuab ntawm Iowa City Tshooj Veterans for Peace. "Nws yog hais txog hnub no, hais txog peb txoj kev xav yuav tsum thim rov qab rau kev ua tsov ua rog thiab kom coj lub nra ntawm kev tsim kev thaj yeeb nyab xeeb."
Sau rau sawv cev ntawm pab pawg neeg Tom Paine tshooj hauv Albany, New York, John Amidon piav qhia tias cov qub tub rog yuav "taug kev mus" nyob rau hauv lub zos Veterans hnub parade vim hais tias "peb tsis taug mus lawm."
Tus neeg siab tawv qhawv "laus txiv neej" hauv Owen zaj paj huam tso tseg tus tim tswv txoj kev cuam tshuam kom nws xaiv lub neej txoj sia. Peb tsis tas yuav ua qhov ua yuam kev ntawd.
Kev Txhawj Hnub Hnub muab sijhawm rau peb lees paub txog kev sib ntaus sib tua ntawm kev sib ntaus sib tua, kev quab yuam ntawm peb cov tub rog, thiab kev lav phib xaub rau peb kom tshem txhua yam kev tsov kev rog.
Kathy Kelly co-coordinates cov pab pawg Cov Voices rau Creative Nonviolence.
