All this is very well, Keith - and I'm not querying it - but the point is: despite what Hastings says, for Britain, France & Germany to get together now and in the future, and to put the grudges and problems of the past to one side, does not necessarily mean that we dishonour the memories of the men and women - soldiers and civilians - who died in WW1, or forget them.

Such jingoistic crap does no-one any service these days. By all means remember the events of the past - and try not to repeat them ad nauseam