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Thread #35624   Message #486973
Posted By: Steve Parkes
19-Jun-01 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: Memorial to WWI 'cowards'
Subject: Memorial to WWI 'cowards'
Liz the Squeak asked about this in this thread. Well, the National Arboretum in Alrewas Staffordshire (UK) has memorials to many different groups that lost their lives in wars. On Thursday this week (June 21) a memorial will be dedicated to those who were shot for cowardice or desertion in the First World War. See here for details of the actual memorial, here for an account of PTSD (which was what most of the deserters were suffering), and for a rather sarcastic discussion (from Sri Lanka, I think).

Steve