They thought the bible was literal for that matter. They thought the smell of rotting seaweed was ozone and therefore good for you. They thought radioactivity had many health promoting properties. They thought cigarettes were benign. They thought blacks were generally inferior. They thought the a Empire was there to wipe our arse.

They thought a lot of things based on what they had been told. The age of communication, starting with the telegraph but through satellites and now the internet allow more people to question.

Would the recruiting marches have been so successful if the men had access to facts and the freedom to question the church and establishment ?

Would we have questioned Blair's dossier if this was 1914?

Keith. Despite everything, your unswerving loyalty to what you construe as defending the fallen is commendable. But your evidence base is not only subjective, it is based on 1914 thinking, and those of us who see it differently do so with 20/20 hindsight.

It doesn't make us wrong, and your attempts to put this into a right and wrong rather than opinion versus opinion does you no favours.

It does however vindicate my attitude towards your posts in recent weeks.

Yours aye,

Musket the Historian.