I suppose we could all be like Keith and choose our sources on the basis of those that flatter his prejudice.

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Nobody is rejecting the historians version of history on account of there not being one. There are thousands and you happen to find a few that sit comfortably with old men in blazers and false nostalgia. You then insult the intelligence of anybody who questions jingoistic spin because you reckon your spot near your war memorial the other Sunday had more gravitas than theirs. Which medal shone the brightest, the one with the pound sign on it?

Well fuck you, blue eyes.

Men died needlessly and whilst they may or may not have known, for no good reason. It isn't an insult to anything to dismiss nationalistic distortions of our past. There came a point where fighting was the only option but the decisions to fight for nationalist reasons came well before that point. When the point came, poor leadership and disregard for the lives of those they were responsible for marked the military fools of the day.

Your stance, if repeated by enough idiots would undermine why cenotaphs and other memorials haven't been demolished to make way for supermarkets yet. But they may as well do if blinkered fools reckon war to be just and glorious rather than shoddy and wrong.

Our soldiers today carry our tertiary social work, saving innocent civilians from attack by those who wish to persecute them. Far better than being told the other equal soldiers over that hill are a set of cunts.