David, let me quote a verse from a hard-hitting song written by Eric Bogle, a Scotsman who emigrated to Australia (as I learned it from the singing of Ronnie Browne).

Contemplations while sitting by a gravestone in a World War I military cemetery in France.

I can't help but wonder, young Willie McBride,
Do those who lie here really know why they died?
Did they believe when they answered the call?
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
The sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the shame;
The killing, the dying, were all done in vain,
For, young Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

© Eric Bogle

Unfortunately, what Eric Bogle wrote is all too true.

"Most" is not enough.

Don Firth