…every now and then, and I must confess, more recently as the age thingy creeps up on me, I’m given to pondering about things such as the lunacy of war… any war… we’ve just had the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy… and 100% correctly, we honoured the fallen as well as those who came back alive… the courage shown on the battlefields, matched by the unsung bravery and stoicity of the families and sweethearts left behind whilst their loved ones went into battle, is unimpeachable… like many millions of others of many nationalities, including those on ‘the other side’, I lost a relative, an uncle, in the Second World War, killed before I was even born… by all accounts a fine man… and I continue to think ’what a bluudy waste of life’ it all is… paradoxically, I’m not a pacifist by nature, but I…
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