Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
I think the sad thing is that, despite all the pomp and circumstance, we just don’t learn.
‘Lest we forget’ is the saying…but we do just that. For all the services of remembrance, Poppy Days and accounts such as ‘Saving Private Ryan’ etc we continue to make weapons and war…and, if we’re not very careful, send our young people off again to waste their lives on the battlefields of what begins as political conflict.
... yet never sees a single politician on the battlefield.