Fantome (#2029).
...Our world is full enough of people mouthing off every day as though their opinions are valid, well-foundered and worthy of close attention...
Just like this Thread ! (My opinions are very well "foundered", indeed).
...I grovel in mortification ... is it the dreaded 'Smilies' that irk you?...
Wot Smilies ? (No grovelling allowed here - except by me).
Danny.
EDIT:
...It is certainly idle and presumptuous in this context, to talk about forgiveness being accorded by someone not a victim of atrocities..
Recalls a past Prime Minister of this country, who famously apologised for the British part in the Slave Trade (which was ended by law in 1807 - three or four generations before his time !) You cannot judge the past by the standards of the present.
D.