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A confession about Remembrance 2011
Nov. 13th, 2011 11:54 amI walked out in the middle of the first sermon, and headed for the Peacekeepers' Monument.
And I NEVER walk out in mid-sermon at these things.
Not in some twenty-odd years. I've occasionally stayed home, either due to illness or other obligations, but when I go the service at the War Memorial?
This was a first for me.
I am told by friends of mine who stayed that Rabbi Bulka got things back on something resembling an even keel, and if that's so, then I am very much a heel for my fit of...anger and guilt all bundled up in one package.
It could be argued by at least one of my friendlisters here at LJ that the first sermon was just a little too much of the sort you might expect to hear in 1914 or 1915, just as our role in World War One was kicking into gear.
I'm not sure if that wouldn't amount to mere excuse-making on my part, though.
And I NEVER walk out in mid-sermon at these things.
Not in some twenty-odd years. I've occasionally stayed home, either due to illness or other obligations, but when I go the service at the War Memorial?
This was a first for me.
I am told by friends of mine who stayed that Rabbi Bulka got things back on something resembling an even keel, and if that's so, then I am very much a heel for my fit of...anger and guilt all bundled up in one package.
It could be argued by at least one of my friendlisters here at LJ that the first sermon was just a little too much of the sort you might expect to hear in 1914 or 1915, just as our role in World War One was kicking into gear.
I'm not sure if that wouldn't amount to mere excuse-making on my part, though.
