#wo2

Today we mourn.

Today we remember the countless lives lost in a terrible war almost a lifetime ago.

Today we mourn all the Jews, all the Indonesians, all the ethnic minorities, all the queers that were murdered simply for existing. For being the way they were.

Today we mourn the soldiers and resistance members who laid down their lives in trying to save others.

Today we mourn those who deserted, who sabotaged, who stood up against government, family or friends when they refused to contribute to the cruelty any longer, and who paid for it with their lives.

Today we mourn those who died for no other reason than because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Those who died because of the hunger and illness the war brought. Those who were killed simply because they were vaguely associated with another.

Today we also remember those who died forced to fight for a cause they didn’t support. Those who were brainwashed into believing they did the right thing when they died fighting for someone else’s twisted cause.

We also mourn the victims of other wars, both then and now, close and far away. The fallen soldiers and civilians in the wars in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Bosnia, in all places where war is or has been.

We remember those who survived, but a part of whom died in the war. Those who will never be free of it, who carry a physical or mental scar that can never fully heal.

Tomorrow we celebrate freedom. Today we mourn those who shouldn’t have died for the reasons they did.

“De tyrannie verdrijven, die mij mijn hart doorwondt.” — Wilhelmus, vers 6

Op zaterdag 3 juni a.s. tonen ver kunstenaars uit 3 generaties hun werk in het WOII- bunkercomplex in de duinen bij Dishoek. Van ’s ochtends 10 uur tot 5 uur ’s middags bent u welkom tijdens de Bunkerdag 2023 van de stichting Bunkerverhalen november '44. Jorieke Rottier reageert met tekeningen op o.m. de aantasting aan de buitenkant van een bunker Dani Ploeger plaatst een object op een bunker en experimenteert met nieuw interventiewerk voor de publieke ruimte. Leon Riekwell en Hans Overvliet staan in één van de munitiebunkers. Leon met tekeningen en mixed media - Blind Shooting, Hans met onder andere een bescheiden geschenk voor bezoekers.