First World War anniversary

[Christel]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9795 ... ember.html

This article raises some important questions.

[Jenks]

another interesting article from a couple of years ago but as relevant today as when it was written..


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... rance.html

and this from the linked article..

One reads from time to time of imbeciles vandalising or urinating upon such memorials, and I am not sure that any punishment or humiliation can ever be adequate. A few years ago I was at Lutyens’s overwhelming memorial to the 72,000 missing of the Somme, and a school party was playing football under its arches. The slovenly teacher in charge could not understand our outrage: perhaps he does now

Jenks

[Christel]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/brit ... vered.html

http://www.oldshep.co.uk/

...click on gallery.