Remembrance Day

London, Whitehall, 2010

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“You cannot simultaneously prepare for war and plan for peace”

~Albert Einstein

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“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?'”

~Eve Merriam

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“O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name”

~Alexander Pope

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“In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons”

~Herodotus

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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans,  and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty and democracy?”

~Mahatma Gandhi