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Dear
Editor,
In
stark contrast
to your leader
("Remembrance
Day reminds us
how to live")
- which to me
seemed like
irreverent
waffle,
exploiting
(not
intentionally,
of course) the
suffering and
sacrifice of
our (certainly
my) forebears
- I
see Remembrance
Day as
reinforcing
the illusion
that
particularly
the First
World War was
some noble
affair, when
in fact it was
the horrific
expression of
human (stupid
white
men's) blindness,
madness and
stupidity
- the utter
failure of
those in
positions of
power and
authority.
It
wouldn't do to
criticise them
too harshly,
though, would
it? Otherwise,
it might occur
to someone
that little
has changed,
that those in
power and
authority
today, at the
beginning of
the 21st
Century, are
no less blind,
mad and stupid
than their
counterparts at
the beginning
of the 20th
Century, and
just as
determined
(not
intentionally,
of course) to
lead us into
even greater
calamities.
Yours
sincerely
Roger Hicks
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