How ironic, while there's war escalating again in one part of the world another one more and more comes to peace.
Countries are reunited again (I live through that in Germany myself) while others are torn apart.
Will we ever come to peace on earth?

Well said Hannes-stoffel and to be honest to answer that last question, I would say no there never will be, so long as us humans are here. We innately seem to always want more and more. That greed is the seed for so much of what is wrong, sure you only need to look at the whole climate change problem. It has been proven that if we don't alter our ways that we will make large parts of our planet inhabitable for the generations to come, yet change is so very very slow in coming about.

This speech from Carl Sagan should be mandatory viewing for people which puts things into perspective about the Earth being our only home.

I remember back in school, 6th and 7th grade we "had to" listen to such music in English class

It's funny how you hated it, and you's probably pay money for it now, It is interesting how we change and morph as we grow older.