I wear my poppy, although not with pride.

I fully accept that many died thinking their death was a price worth paying for future generations. It heaps insult to injury to face the truth. They were lions led by donkeys. Callous disregard by gungho fools.

One reason why WW2 was dealt with better by the top brass is that they saw the errors and criminal mistakes of the then top brass in the first war when they were junior officers and didn't wish to inflict that on their men.

The revisionists have been busy the last couple of years, trying to clean up the reputation of the butcher of The Somme, but people aren't as gullible now. Even Cameron had to upset the loony fringe of his party by removing the word "celebration" from the centennial proceedings. We don't seem to learn. Even now, fools use terms such as "legitimate targets" and other jingoistic subjective terms that slip so easily onto their keyboards from the GHQ of Suburbia.