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    • Posted November 11, 2009 by
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    The Horror of War

    By yadray  |  Posted November 11, 2009  |  Paris, France
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     yadray captured these images at a ceremony in the Saint Mande section of Paris.
    - davidw, CNN iReport producer

    Paris...November 11...Armistice Day.

     

    Traditionally the people of France commemorate the end of World War I today...th war in which between 6 and 9 million were killed...

    Americans .116,000

    French: 1,399,000

    German: 2,000,000

    Russian: 4,800,000

     

    The day should be a reminder of the horrors and not the glory of war....

     

    In photo #5..children sing the French National Anthem..La Marseillaise...often and rightly criticised for its bellicose and war-like lyrics and for glorifying war in an attempt to rally its citizens around the flag.

     

    Teach your children well...that they have a code they can live by...and that code could well be stated without glorifying war.

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