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Honouring the fallen in war
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This is always a solemn and emotional occasion, but emotions may be stirred even more profoundly this year because we are on the eve of the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the First World War.
As we are all too aware, that ‘war to end all war’ achieved no such thing, and conflicts ranging from the global to the purely local have remained deeply regrettable features of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Nevertheless, the First World War – the Great War – endures as a powerful symbol of the suffering and futility of wars of all sorts.
The sacrifice of young life in the trenches of the Western Front, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and, indeed, on the high seas is emblematic of all military sacrifice before and since.
Read the rest of this Leader comment in Friday’s JEP.
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