Avoid the war

Liberation Day (Dutch: Bevrijdingsdag) is celebrated each year on May 5 in the
Netherlands to mark the end of the German occupation during the Second World
War.

Lucky me, the place where the treaty was signed is Wageningen, the city where I live ... so you can imagine that it was the center of the entire celebration.

For now I want to stop a little bit on the street theater that happened on the night of the 4th of May, the beginning of the celebration. It happened on 2 levels stage in a square in Wageningen, next to the hotel where the treaty was signed back in 1945.
A group of young people dressed in white were the ones acting. On the top level images were projected.
At the beginning it was a peaceful blue sky, lovely birds' songs, slow movements; all was full of harmony and peace and purity. The rhythm became more energetic: the struggle for staying alive, for reaching the lost moments of the wonder of living; strong noises of bombardiers, screams of a young woman, physical punishments of bodies dressed in white.
They put the entire feeling of a dark war into art; in my mind only one idea was present: stop the war; give the sky, the sounds, the life to the ones dressed in white.
It ended with the scene of finding back the peace after the war: music, confetti, the loved person ... but it looked so strange to me this celebration of the end of the war. It's the best attitude to be happy when it is over, but in the same time the memories of the bad things that happened were still alive; the happiness of life wasn't so pure as at the beginning.

Avoid the war; it will end some day, but the memory will be alive for ever, exactly as the memory of a happy moment stays in your mind...