I will remember friends and comrades in private next year,as the solemnity of remembrance has been twisted into a justification for conflictOver the final 10 years the sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and commerce leaders. The most lucky in our society have turned the solemnity of remembrance for fallen soldiers in ancient wars into a justification for our most recent armed conflicts. The American civil war's General Sherman once said that "war is hell", and but unfortunately today's politicians in Britain exercise past wars to bolster our flagging belief in national austerity or to compel us to surrender our rights as citizens,in the name of the public good.
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Source: theguardian.com