Meaning no disrespect to anyone, but reacting to Liz the Squeek's comment, what exactly did they all do for us?

this was a war about nothing, fought by politicians with the bodies of their youths. The outcome might have been better for the world if the Germans had won and Hitler had been content to hang wallpaper and paint watercolors on his Sundays off. Some of the participants were brave, the leaders were guilty of cynical jingoism. Better the brave men had been brave enough to walk home alive. all those lost, what a shame, a crime against humanity to waste a generation like that. Their lives were certainly given in vain. Tell me what else they were given for then?

It should be remembered, 'lest we forget', but not as a victory, as a wakening from a nightmare, as something we should all work to prevent from ever happening again.

the haka is beautiful and powerful and spiritual, let those who are moved to perform it, and who carry the tradition of it, perform it, and the rest of us who are allowed to observe it, observe it.