Comments on: Remembering isn’t enough https://www.phansw.org.au/remembering-isnt-enough/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remembering-isnt-enough Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:39:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: phanswblogeditor https://www.phansw.org.au/remembering-isnt-enough/#comment-237611 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:23:43 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=2526#comment-237611 Yes, plenty of euphemism in this type of memorialisation and not just in the US. I should have used quotation marks around the word ‘fallen’

]]> By: Ron Ringer https://www.phansw.org.au/remembering-isnt-enough/#comment-237592 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:40:39 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=2526#comment-237592 Thought provoking, but much the same could be said for the mythology surrounding any nation’s experience of war. Australia’s obsession with war as a way of interpreting the nation’s ‘experience’ has become cult like. The year 2018 fills me with dread as the repeats and commentaries are put on parade – again and again. War is always ugly, but sometimes it’s necessary to prevent those who wish to enslave others.

BTW. ‘The fallen’ – euphemism for dead soldiers, terminology worth avoiding. See Paul Fussell’s work, The Great War and Modern Memory, wherein he provides a wonderful exploration of euphemism, which, in Australia, is referred to in disparaging terms ….

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