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Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow

from The Freedom Of The Borough by Active Minds

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Our TV screens are regularly filled with adverts promoting a career in the armed forces as an exciting and fulfilling life. They offer adventure, camaraderie and training for a transferrable trade. They will highlight the humanitarian aspect of helping to rebuild decimated communities, and the sense of purpose that this will bring to a new recruit’s life.
What is conspicuous in its absence is any focus on warfare. Doesn’t that seem strange, considering that is the principal purpose of a soldier – to be prepared to kill and die for your country on the orders of others? No sight of the butchery in the sanitised ads. They’ll show soldiers fixing water supplies to bring relief to towns which have been turned to rubble. But you won’t see footage of the army blowing the shit out of those towns in the first place.
A life in the army is promoted to impressionable young minds who have little appreciation of the devastation it can bring. Some years ago, I remember witnessing a promotional exhibition in the centre of my home town in which the army had an armoured car set up with a machine gun pointing down the high street, and young children were being encouraged to look down the sights of the gun and pretend they were aiming at the civilians around them. You wouldn’t have thought that many people would think that was appropriate. Yet those of us who were handing out leaflets objecting to this display of military might occupying our town centre ended up being arrested for our efforts…

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“Join the army – see the world.”
They don’t say that you could be killed.

A hero’s welcome for the lads –
Ship them home in bodybags.

Do you think your loved ones will feel pride
When they hear that you have died?

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from The Freedom Of The Borough, released May 4, 2018

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