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   Ms. Que Banh (phoenixserenity@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 07:12:25 JST Ms. Que Banh

   Big Auntie honoured her former fellow resistance fighters with a long & somber incense filled ceremony at her home today. We have never attended any colonial public remembrance day ceremonies - except when me & my brothers were forced to, in our public school times, which was mandatory for all students. We have spent some time during past remembrance days with some Canadian veterans here, who have dedicated the rest of their lives to fighting for peace. Despite them being called traitors by folks who enjoy war/violence more than working very hard towards peace. They are the real heroes from past war times - they understand wars should NEVER be glorified but avoided.

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     Ms. Que Banh (phoenixserenity@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 07:12:22 JST Ms. Que Banh

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     I have never understood, since my childhood years, why we have huge public ceremonies for people who got paid to go to war & kill people they don't know for someone who is willing to use them as cannon fodder but they don't have big public ceremonies for all the victims of wars & any speeches from the survivors of horrific war crimes committed by many people with a ton of medals on their clothes.

     Bill repeated this.
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     Ms. Que Banh (phoenixserenity@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 07:12:23 JST Ms. Que Banh

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     We usually follow up past martyred ancestors day with a day of honouring all children. It's important to me as a surviving war child that childrens' lives lost are fully honoured too. We end those ceremonies with blessings for the children of today.

     Betsy Bee and Bill repeated this.
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     Ms. Que Banh (phoenixserenity@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 07:12:24 JST Ms. Que Banh

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     #Resistance against imperialism & colonialism is in my blood. It goes back much further than the USA invasion on Vietnam. It goes back several generations on both my patriarch & matriarch ancestors sides. Several of my ancestors in China were murdered by imperialists for resisting indoctrination & trying to fight back. Several of my ancestors in Vietnam were murdered by French colonizers while fighting back & trying to protect their families & ancestral lands. Part of my ancestral duties is to keep on resisting the colonial/imperial evil forces. I owe at least that, to all my ancestors who sacrificed their lives so I could live & speak out, today.

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     Ms. Que Banh (phoenixserenity@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:42:34 JST Ms. Que Banh

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     The peace activist veterans I am still friends with get together to do community work like serving in community kitchens, helping elderly/disabled with errands, etc on this day. They've skipped the public ceremonies on purpose & I have mass respect for them 💗