Comments on: Guest Post: A Soldier’s Perspective on Human Rights and UDHR http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/index.php/2008/12/12/a-soldiers-perspective-on-human-rights-and-udhr/ Promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wed, 15 May 2013 01:59:37 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Anca http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/index.php/2008/12/12/a-soldiers-perspective-on-human-rights-and-udhr/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Anca Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:16:49 +0000 http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/?p=586#comment-183 John, I totally agree with you. I admit I had my own prejudice regarding soldiers, and was pleasantly surprised to get in touch with Lee. His side of the story made me change my "mass-media influenced opinion", and reminded me that stereotyping people is bad for your soul. I am extremely happy that Lee wrote this article for One Day for Human Rights, and that you find it useful. :) Brian - that quote should be more like "No one prays for peace more than a good soldier". ;) Thank you both for your comments! They are much appreciated! Love, Anca John, I totally agree with you. I admit I had my own prejudice regarding soldiers, and was pleasantly surprised to get in touch with Lee. His side of the story made me change my “mass-media influenced opinion”, and reminded me that stereotyping people is bad for your soul. I am extremely happy that Lee wrote this article for One Day for Human Rights, and that you find it useful. :)

Brian – that quote should be more like “No one prays for peace more than a good soldier”. ;)

Thank you both for your comments! They are much appreciated!
Love,
Anca

]]> By: Brian(bc42) http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/index.php/2008/12/12/a-soldiers-perspective-on-human-rights-and-udhr/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Brian(bc42) Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:39:24 +0000 http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/?p=586#comment-169 I'm reminded of a Drill Instructor of mine who once said that "No one prays for peace more than a soldier." Though through individual experience our resolve may waiver or be strengthened, none of us ever forget the human component to any combat situation. <abbr><em>Brian(bc42)’s last blog post..<a href="http://bc42-guilife.blogspot.com/2008/12/one-day-for-human-rights.html" rel="nofollow">One Day for Human Rights</a></abbr></em> I’m reminded of a Drill Instructor of mine who once said that “No one prays for peace more than a soldier.” Though through individual experience our resolve may waiver or be strengthened, none of us ever forget the human component to any combat situation.

Brian(bc42)’s last blog post..One Day for Human Rights

]]> By: John Newbold http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/index.php/2008/12/12/a-soldiers-perspective-on-human-rights-and-udhr/comment-page-1/#comment-165 John Newbold Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:28:52 +0000 http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/?p=586#comment-165 Brilliant post and one that appears to have been well needed. There's some great points here which could easily be expanded upon in posts of their own. The crux of it to me seems that soldiers like Lee clearly don't conform to the media stereotype often pushed at us these days. I think it's important that citizens are able to differentiate their political response to the war they read about in the media from their human opinion of the soldiers who fight in them. To me the sensationalist stereotype of "mindless killer sheep" is one the public desperately needs to consciously object too - it's sometimes all to easy to form an opinion based on what we're told, rather than what we actually know. Posts like this are important because they help put a human face on the 'soldiers' we don't really know anything about and also flag up the stories we're never really told. Picking up a tabloid somedays you could almost go away thinking that a soldier who believes in human rights was some kind of oxymoron - I think posts like this are helpful in redressing that balance. Brilliant post and one that appears to have been well needed. There’s some great points here which could easily be expanded upon in posts of their own. The crux of it to me seems that soldiers like Lee clearly don’t conform to the media stereotype often pushed at us these days. I think it’s important that citizens are able to differentiate their political response to the war they read about in the media from their human opinion of the soldiers who fight in them. To me the sensationalist stereotype of “mindless killer sheep” is one the public desperately needs to consciously object too – it’s sometimes all to easy to form an opinion based on what we’re told, rather than what we actually know. Posts like this are important because they help put a human face on the ‘soldiers’ we don’t really know anything about and also flag up the stories we’re never really told. Picking up a tabloid somedays you could almost go away thinking that a soldier who believes in human rights was some kind of oxymoron – I think posts like this are helpful in redressing that balance.

]]> By: Good causes - Lee Kemp http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/index.php/2008/12/12/a-soldiers-perspective-on-human-rights-and-udhr/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Good causes - Lee Kemp Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:54:39 +0000 http://www.onedayforhumanrights.com/?p=586#comment-163 [...] by Lee on Dec.13, 2008, under Uncategorized Following a cheeky request from me to get a total stranger to design something for me, I got invited to write a guest post on the One Day for Human Rights campaign. I was very late getting it back to her but I finally got it finished yesterday and you can read it here if you want [...] [...] by Lee on Dec.13, 2008, under Uncategorized Following a cheeky request from me to get a total stranger to design something for me, I got invited to write a guest post on the One Day for Human Rights campaign. I was very late getting it back to her but I finally got it finished yesterday and you can read it here if you want [...]

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