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A tragic and desperate waste of life.
Of course the horror of war needs to be acknowledged (check out Spike Milligan's war diaries if you haven't already for a brilliant take on the combined humour and horror of war). "Never again" is clearly a sentiment that we should all get behind, but it doesn't look like being realised any time soon. Until it is I think there's a balance to be struck. War shouldn't be glorified but we can commemorate people who fought for things that were worthwhile and not simply assert that, while many didn't have a choice, participation in a war isn't always a tragedy completely beyond their control.
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Off the top of my head there were incidents where captured US airmen were lynched by German civilians and German airmen being lynched by Londoners before the authorities could arrive. War needs to be called out for what it is. A tragic and desperate waste of life.