After the war, however, the problem of
reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost,
and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an
emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the
1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service -
whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable
to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
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