Tribute and Reference
October 9, 2009
La Mort de Marat, by Jacques-Louis David
This post is solely dedicated to the soldier who committed suicide today on a watch-post of an army camp in Larnaca, Cyprus.
Fact: The young recruited soldier unwrapped the taped case containing ammo for his weapon, a G3, loaded the gun, placed it between his mouth and fired. He was found dead on the watch-post today. Another life lost for no reason, of a defensive army that hasn’t been in war, or a war-like situation, for 35 years now.
Personal interpretation: Regardless of the troubles he might have been having, individual problems or weakness of character, it is a clear and blunt statement – a cry, if you will, of desperation for the Society to finally listen. We don’t want to make war, we don’t want to be recruited anymore, we don’t want to waste anymore time or lives of young men, in order to pay for mistakes and events of a past era, deeds of another generation. Please, listen.
