Soldiers' real stories are the best defence against Remembrance Day conditioning | Paul... - 2 views
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Steph Pearson on 14 Nov 14"If we can be culturally conditioned to imagine that the "fallen" somehow "sacrificed" themselves for an end loftier than just the battlefield - be it empire or freedom or a new federation - then the prosaic ugliness of war death and survivor torment becomes ever more remote from the politicians who are ultimately responsible for it."
