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Thread #156062   Message #3679662
Posted By: Jim Carroll
24-Nov-14 - 03:05 PM
Thread Name: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Subject: RE: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
"Jim, the BBC thinks they are the best."
What it boils down to Keith, is that you prefer to take the selections you have cut an pasted written in the main by establishment historian nearly a century after the events (because they have been carefully selected to appear to coincide with your own jingoism) than the description given by those who fought, of their officers, their reasons for joining up and the way they felt about the war, especially when they returned home
You have chosen to describe those who fought as "liars" and "out-of-step" when their reminiscences do not follow the official line.
Personally, I find this shameful, but I have come to expect no less from you and your ilk
Jim Carroll