Happy Friday friends,
It was Remembrance Day this week, 11/11.
I have family in the military, on both sides, in several branches, and I try to take the day as a serious reminder to pray for them and everyone else who is literally serving me and my family in a way I simply have not — and realistically at this point, never will.
Thank you to them, and to those of you who have offered the same service.
There’s also the, I think good, tendency to celebrate the heroism, in many cases the sacrificial heroism, which forms part of the story of what we call the West at this time of year. World War II is the great cultural touchstone in this regard since it is, I think inarguably, the great example of a moral conflict with the sharpest possible lines between good and evil.
But I try to remember World War I, which sadly earned the initial designation the “war to end all wars,” even if it proved tragically untrue. That was, famously, not a war with nearly so clear a distinction between the good and bad, at least at the outset. More importantly, I would say, it was a war no one wanted.
There’s
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