User:Tamzin/userpage/special/Ukraine

May their memories be for a blessing^[1]

Tomorrow or the next day^[2] marks 19 years since my father (Z''L^[1]) was killed in the line of duty. Today marks confirmation of the sixth death of a civilian journalist in the line of duty since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine started, the thirteenth in the war.

Like my father, I've never been a "fuck war" type. War has its purposes. But fuck this war. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 19:13, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

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[I] am but History's courier
To bind the conquering years;
A battle-ray, through ages gray
To light to deeds sublime,
And flash the lustre of this day
Down all the aisles of Time!

— "Army Correspondent's Last Ride",^[3] George Alfred Townsend, 1865. Excerpted on the National War Correspondents Memorial as "War Correspondent Ballad".^[4]

Tyranny truly is a horror: an immense, endlessly bloody, endlessly painful, endlessly varied, endless crime against not humanity in the abstract but a lot of humans in the flesh. It is, as Orwell wrote, a jackboot forever stomping on a human face.
— "Who Would Choose Tyranny?", Michael Kelly, 2003.^[5]

^ ^a ^b Honorifics for the dead in Judaism § Of blessed memory
^ Because of timezones and bureaucratic quirks, some sources say the 3rd, some the 4th; my family has always observed the 3rd, while this wiki says the 4th. Wikipedia, as is so often the case, is probably less wrong.
^ Townsend, George Alfred (1900) [1865-04-01]. "775. Army Correspondent's Last Ride". In Stedman, Edmund Clarence (ed.). An American Anthology, 1787-1900. p. 417. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
^ "Antietam Battlefield Monuments: War Correspondents Memorial Arch". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
^ Kelly, Michael (2003-02-26). "Who Would Choose Tyranny?". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-03-13.

[z''l-1] Honorifics for the dead in Judaism § Of blessed memory

[2] Because of timezones and bureaucratic quirks, some sources say the 3rd, some the 4th; my family has always observed the 3rd, while this wiki says the 4th. Wikipedia, as is so often the case, is probably less wrong.

[3] Townsend, George Alfred (1900) [1865-04-01]. "775. Army Correspondent's Last Ride". In Stedman, Edmund Clarence (ed.). An American Anthology, 1787-1900. p. 417. Retrieved 2022-03-13.

[4] "Antietam Battlefield Monuments: War Correspondents Memorial Arch". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2022-03-13.

[5] Kelly, Michael (2003-02-26). "Who Would Choose Tyranny?". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-03-13.

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