@EL - I am so gutted that it took me all day and evening to check in here so late. I feel guilty, I feel enraged. With so much on your writing and tracking plate, EL, it is truly miraculous that you can find the time to track this ghastly tragedy as well. Take care of yourself and your mental and emotional resources. TC
Another day of talks and no progress as innocent civilians continue to be targeted and killed. If this isn't genocide I don't know what is. No one wants war but talk is cheap. During the pandemic, my husband and I have been keeping in touch with friends by phone, all of whom are commonly known as "depression babies". During the past couple of years it seems as though every other day our Canadian government has been announcing multiple millions of dollars to be spent on this, that and the other thing, all worthy causes for sure, but those of our generation have been quick to assess "someone is going to have to pay for all this expenditure". I have to believe that governments throughout the world are faced with the same costs and deficits. I wonder if "cost", not in lives but in money is what is preventing them from taking the action we don't want, namely war, rather than what we DO want, an end to the "hostilities" we are witnessing in real time.
Not only are they bombing civilian targets but then lying and putting the blame for such atrocities on the poor Ukranians.That is totally unforgivable.
Oh EL! What a terrible time we are living through. You talk about internments and the patterns of occupation through the years.
My son, a serving British officer, was based in Honhe in Germany. Next to the army camp, which was a Nazi base and officers quarters, was Hohne POW camp. There is a line drawn on the road from a railways station for a few miles, with footprints painted here and there to indicate this is the way they were marched to camp.
My husband went to visit the camp with my son, they both said it was an eerie experience, silent and still.
With all these memories still in people’s memories how can some even consider doing it all again. I worry for the Ukrainians arrested, and those in Russia who are probably (possibly) being held in internment camps or worse.
I worry for those soldiers who are captured as if this is not designated a ‘war’ they are not covered by the Geneva Convention, not that it would probably help them in Russia or Belarus.
Our village is collecting, but all wish we could do more than send cotton wool and baby milk, but the whole thing really is beyond what I have ever known.
Sometimes it is just too painful to read the papers but last night's news that the filth had bombed a maternity hospital was the horror of horrors. Even if Russia withdrew right now, their reputation would never recover from this barbarity.
Thank you OH - I haven't had much time to read this through but this I will reread over again. I am having a day off from collecting donations and taking them to the Sports Hall in a nearby town. I am just so tired but cannot just sit by.
I have also written to Priti Patel and castigated her for the appalling way the refugees are being treated. My mother worked at a refugee centre in Gloucestershire during and after the war and the only restriction they had was transport to bring the children to the UK. Not some dumbcluck Home Secretary who allows in boatloads of people who are not genuine refugees but makes things so difficult for real refugees. Forgive me for sounding off but I feel that the Government could do a lot more. I am ashamed of them, not my country because I know how many ordinary people are going the extra mile to help but the Government is a disgrace. Their only saving grace is sending modern, effective weapons but how long will that take I wonder.
@EL - I am so gutted that it took me all day and evening to check in here so late. I feel guilty, I feel enraged. With so much on your writing and tracking plate, EL, it is truly miraculous that you can find the time to track this ghastly tragedy as well. Take care of yourself and your mental and emotional resources. TC
Another day of talks and no progress as innocent civilians continue to be targeted and killed. If this isn't genocide I don't know what is. No one wants war but talk is cheap. During the pandemic, my husband and I have been keeping in touch with friends by phone, all of whom are commonly known as "depression babies". During the past couple of years it seems as though every other day our Canadian government has been announcing multiple millions of dollars to be spent on this, that and the other thing, all worthy causes for sure, but those of our generation have been quick to assess "someone is going to have to pay for all this expenditure". I have to believe that governments throughout the world are faced with the same costs and deficits. I wonder if "cost", not in lives but in money is what is preventing them from taking the action we don't want, namely war, rather than what we DO want, an end to the "hostilities" we are witnessing in real time.
Not only are they bombing civilian targets but then lying and putting the blame for such atrocities on the poor Ukranians.That is totally unforgivable.
Oh EL! What a terrible time we are living through. You talk about internments and the patterns of occupation through the years.
My son, a serving British officer, was based in Honhe in Germany. Next to the army camp, which was a Nazi base and officers quarters, was Hohne POW camp. There is a line drawn on the road from a railways station for a few miles, with footprints painted here and there to indicate this is the way they were marched to camp.
My husband went to visit the camp with my son, they both said it was an eerie experience, silent and still.
With all these memories still in people’s memories how can some even consider doing it all again. I worry for the Ukrainians arrested, and those in Russia who are probably (possibly) being held in internment camps or worse.
I worry for those soldiers who are captured as if this is not designated a ‘war’ they are not covered by the Geneva Convention, not that it would probably help them in Russia or Belarus.
Our village is collecting, but all wish we could do more than send cotton wool and baby milk, but the whole thing really is beyond what I have ever known.
Sometimes it is just too painful to read the papers but last night's news that the filth had bombed a maternity hospital was the horror of horrors. Even if Russia withdrew right now, their reputation would never recover from this barbarity.
Thank you OH - I haven't had much time to read this through but this I will reread over again. I am having a day off from collecting donations and taking them to the Sports Hall in a nearby town. I am just so tired but cannot just sit by.
I have also written to Priti Patel and castigated her for the appalling way the refugees are being treated. My mother worked at a refugee centre in Gloucestershire during and after the war and the only restriction they had was transport to bring the children to the UK. Not some dumbcluck Home Secretary who allows in boatloads of people who are not genuine refugees but makes things so difficult for real refugees. Forgive me for sounding off but I feel that the Government could do a lot more. I am ashamed of them, not my country because I know how many ordinary people are going the extra mile to help but the Government is a disgrace. Their only saving grace is sending modern, effective weapons but how long will that take I wonder.