Fri 9 November 2007 - This is our war
What did you do in the war, grandad?
Sunday is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the generations of young soldiers who went away to war to fight for the freedoms we enjoy today, many of them paying with their lives.
Those of us young(ish) adults no longer have the threat of world (or even local) war upon us. Soldiers going to war now choose to do so, rather than being compelled to do so.
No, we have another war to fight for the sake of future generations.
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