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[b]SJB wrote:[/b]
[quote]I venture to suggest, JK, that you sometimes don't give due credit to how different views were about national identity and international relationships 100 years ago.

WW1 soldiers were quite prepared to "bash the Bosch" for King and country, having never seen or met a German, nor ever having travelled outside Britain before. So, perhaps it was easier to have a them-and-us attitude and see the enemy as unlike us and therefore not as people or as humans. Interestingly, many soldiers promptly realised that the enemy was made up of young men exactly like them, and began to wonder about the point of it all.

Nowadays, our old European enemies are only a short flight away, or available instantly on email or skype and the similarities are plainly obvious. Indeed, we might think we have more in common with the Germans than with some recently added cultures within British society.

My personal opinion is that WW1 and WW2 remembrance should always carry a note of criticism for the stupidity and futility of these wars, while recognising the men's bravery and tragedy on a personal level, even though it was not in a worthwhile cause.[/quote]

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Topic History of: Field of Remembrance blessed by a priest
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Prunella Minge	I think the adjectives applied to such words as 'liberal' or 'conservative' are the pertinent things. There's nothing necessarily wrong with the actual terms themselves, except for imprecision - hence the adjectives. (Hence 'wet' Conservatives, limp Liberals and 'New' Labour. And all of the rival socialisms and communisms rated in Marx and Engels' Manifesto.)
Locked Out	Is it just me, or does anyone else, on seeing the word "liberal" rendered as an insult, start wondering exactly how illiberal the views of the writer might be? I don't, for the record, subscribe to the view that we shouldn't recognise the sacrifice of the fallen of two world wars. I have deeper misgivings about more recent military adventures, Let's leave it at that.
Jim	Thanks Tim, What's your point? Best Wishes, Jim
Tim	Jim wrote: Perhaps a better question is, "Are there Fields of Remembrance for our victims?" Best Wishes, Jim Were fascists intent on shoving some into gas ovens and others into subjection the mere 'victims' of those who had the temerity to resist, or is this just meek liberal claptrap? Best wishes, Tim
Jim	Perhaps a better question is, "Are there Fields of Remembrance for our victims?" Best Wishes, Jim