"Bogle's NO Man's Land is a fine song but not suitable for Remembrance I would suggest. I regard it as patronising and insulting to the dead of WW1 to say that they knew not why they were fighting and that they died in vain. Similarly the Waltzing Matilda song that asks why they are marching." Not to cause trouble here, and certainly no disrespect meant to the soldiers of World War I (who included my mother's father), but we remember that terrible war in part precisely because it was fought for reasons that were not always clear and because it accomplished so little. Instead of being "the war to end all wars," it set the stage for World War II, while essentially wiping out a generation of young European men. "The Waltzing Matilda song" is about Gallipoli, which, historians generally agree, was a badly-planned disaster for both sides. All right, off my soap box!--I realize that this is a forum for music, not history.
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