I offered no opinion on the war's justification or otherwise, Dick. I merely made the point that if you do fight a war, it is natural to 'rejoice' when your side is victorious, & that it is in no way unreasonable for the leader of the victorious nation to call on it to do so (the fact that serving military personnel will of course have been killed in the attainment of that victory is beside this particular point - people do get killed in battle, even victorious ones - especially since their participation, at times when there is no conscription, is voluntary, and they have in no way been coerced into a profession where they are fully aware of the inherent risks)*; and, above all, that Squeezer's modes of expression in stating his IMO mistaken opposition to what Mrs Thatcher said were vulgar, excessive, and disgraceful. He should, I reiterate, be ashamed of having said such things. You have, so far as I can see, adduced no reason for my being so in expressing this opinion.

~M~

*And probably worth adding here that even at times of impressment or conscription, victories are to be rejoiced in. Do you think people were wrong to celebrate after Trafalgar or Waterloo or El Alamein, or to take part in the enormous VE & VJ Day demonstrations which marked the end of WW2, because some people had lost relatives in them? I think Squeezer & you are way way up the creek, frankly.