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Thread #160933 Message #3960999
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
09-Nov-18 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Armistice Day 2016 open thread
Subject: RE: BS: Armistice Day 2016 open thread
It is all very well to bemoan the futility of war, and to quote Wilfred Owen.
But the men who marched off to war (to a great extent) believed they were doing so for the right reasons. So that another country could not extend their lands by force of arms, and subdue other countries which should have an equal right to live in peace.
Armistice day, and Remembrance Sunday, are there so that we can all recall those who died that a degree of freedom could live.
They shall grow not old,as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.