Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
No, I dont think there is a great deal of glory in being blown to bits in a field. A notion such as honour serves its purpose in persuading young working class men to submit to slaughter as an alternative to being shot for running away.

I dont belittle the sacrifice, or the bravery of individuals. I do shrink from describing it as glorious.
You realise that whilst 'young working class men' made up the majority of front line troops, it was public school chaps who suffered far the greatest number of casualties, do you?

The reason we are in the absolute state we are in is that the Great War claimed the lives of the bulk of decent young men and left us with an overwhelming preponderance of the weak, the sickly, the mentally feeble - to whom I believe you refer as 'the working classes'.