5.18
This is a day late and a dollar short, but yesterday was the 26th anniversary of the event Koreanologist Antti Leppänen called "the Kwangju rebellion/democracy movement/uprising/insurgency/massacre etc (pick your own)" in his pictoral history: Kwangju May 1980 photographs.
These photos show that the Citizens' Army, which took over the city, was not exactly preparing a Gandhian Salt March:
Whatever the case, once a side takes up arms, and loses, it seems it also loses the right to wallow in victimhood. Of course, many innocents were also killed, which is why "serious prospects of success" are a part of Catholic Just War Doctrine. It is these innocents I mourn.
This is a day late and a dollar short, but yesterday was the 26th anniversary of the event Koreanologist Antti Leppänen called "the Kwangju rebellion/democracy movement/uprising/insurgency/massacre etc (pick your own)" in his pictoral history: Kwangju May 1980 photographs.
These photos show that the Citizens' Army, which took over the city, was not exactly preparing a Gandhian Salt March:
Whatever the case, once a side takes up arms, and loses, it seems it also loses the right to wallow in victimhood. Of course, many innocents were also killed, which is why "serious prospects of success" are a part of Catholic Just War Doctrine. It is these innocents I mourn.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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