Ken Lovell, who blogs for Road to Surfdom as well as for himself has outdone himself this time.

We’d vote for him any day. But then that would make him a politician and that would be the last thing we’d want.

Here’s a small part of today’s post at Surfdom, “Lest We Forget“:

Today was Remembrance Day, a day upon which all Australians should unite in honouring the memory of those who died in war. It’s not a day for glorifying conflict or shouting jingoistic slogans, or trying to get reflected glory from the recent deaths of soldiers in Afghanistan; it’s a day for sorrow that so many young people’s lives were lost or ruined because of our failure as a human race to find ways to live peaceably upon the planet. It’s a day that above all calls for ceremonies that bring us all together in a solemn spirit of remorse and shame at the youth and the beauty and the joy of living that was sacrificed upon the altar of old men’s pride and avarice.

Yup.

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