Oh yes... The Belgians...

I notice that even Poirot had to kill some poor bugger in the end.

Whilst reading up on your history, read about the Belgian exploits in Africa immediately before the war, it makes our shameful actions in The Boer War look tame. Whether the innocent Belgian residents deserved another country taking over is another discussion for another time, but the bloodthirsty fool leading them made the Kaiser look benevolent. (Despite his aim being The Congo, not Brussels. No bugger wants Brussels. I once wrote a paper as part of a course I was on about Belgium. (The subject was given to me, I didn't choose it...). My title page said "Belgium. A country armies march through to attack other countries."

Red herring. It was imperialism and dirty squabbling over imperialist aims. That's why no matter how much the soldiers who died may have been brave, foolhardy, whatever, they certainly didnt die for the right of rich merchants to keep their cheap raw goods markets open.

Yet they did....

Repeating the mantra of the time just perpetuates the idea of us not learning from our past, and that certainly would dishonour them. If their deaths had a purpose, then let it be that we never repeat the mistakes of our gung-ho idiotic past.