Originally Posted by
Two's in
Disgraceful, watch for this happening back in Blighty.
Oh crikey mate, I thought we invented self-loathing here in the UK. It started out as, 'learning lessons from the past' now we have the liberal intelligentsia telling us we should apologise for deeds and events that belonged to a different era when values were utterly different to todays; the slave trade, execution of deserters during WW1, the bombing of civilians in WW2.
On another forum I had a 'conversation' with someone who thinks that the remembrance process glorifies war and that by holding this 'anachronism' every year we simply make future wars inevitable.