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Thread #152785 Message #3575974
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
15-Nov-13 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Armistice Day (debate)
Subject: RE: BS: Armistice Day (debate)
I do not know who or what exactly started WWI, but I know that monarchs and presidents, however evil and conceited, would not have had the power to do it by their lonesome decisions. My favourites among the many culprits are jingoistic newspapers, heating conflicts for profit - still do.
Should we be grateful to soldiers? In some sense yes, as to firefighters and policemen. But I refuse to thank them collectively for risking/sacrificing their lives "for us", since this would amount to accepting that their commanders acted for our objective benefit. Nine of my granduncles died in WWI, on both sides, not counting those who died in the Russian civil wars. They cannot all have died for me, can they?