Arguably, the most futile waste of lives ever, we are, this week, celebrating 100 years since we went to war. I fail to agree with any arguments that it was a "just war" or that it was necessary. With the wisdom of hindsight, it is easy for us to look back at WW1 and be wise after the event I know.
I am sure that, at the time, the masses were stirred by patriotic fever and I am also sure that Kaiser Bill was a war monger. Still, millions of innocents were killed and with what result? Just 21 years later we were at war with Germany again!
To my mind, "ordinary" men were coerced into battle on all sides. I think that first Christmas truce tells us a great deal.
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