What's Sentimental About Honouring Those Who Died for Their Beliefs?
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Last Sunday morning I attended a memorial service commemorating British soldiers who had died in the Spanish Civil War. In the evening a TV documentary complained that Welsh people are far too sentimental about all that.
Some volunteers, it said, only joined because they were bored or unemployed. Some tried to desert. They were badly led. They thought they were defending an ideal, but so were their opponents. And it was all wasted because they lost. Just because some ended up dead, did that make them heroes?See the full content of this document
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What's Sentimental About Honouring Those Who Died for Their Beliefs?
It's true that all wars are bad and civil wars are the bitterest. We may come to realise that the real heroes are t...
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