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First World War anniversary

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:44 am
by Christel
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9795 ... ember.html

This article raises some important questions.

Re: First World War anniversary

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:53 am
by Jenks
another interesting article from a couple of years ago but as relevant today as when it was written..


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... rance.html

and this from the linked article..
One reads from time to time of imbeciles vandalising or urinating upon such memorials, and I am not sure that any punishment or humiliation can ever be adequate. A few years ago I was at Lutyens’s overwhelming memorial to the 72,000 missing of the Somme, and a school party was playing football under its arches. The slovenly teacher in charge could not understand our outrage: perhaps he does now
Jenks

Re: First World War anniversary

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:53 pm
by Christel