We must always remember the tragedy of that war, which was made far worse by the fact that it was a futile and unnecessary conflict, conducted in a brutal and wasteful manner. Of many of the dead, you can scarcely say that they gave their lives- they were forcibly robbed of life by conscription and wasteful generalship that had no regard to humanity. And only twenty years later, the final "victory" brought another war.

We must remember so that we can learn- that you can not fight injustice with injustice.