Helen McCartney, 'Reader' :-
This view that remembrance is an apolitical act helps to underpin a contemporary narrative that dissociates armed forces personnel from the political ends they are required to serve by the government of the day
In my day the Armed Forces did dissociate themselves with the political ends of the democratically elected Government of the day, and simply did as they were legally ordered. Has that changed?
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