Someone please explain this to me. We commiserate World Wars and pay our respect to dead soldiers at every opportunity. We call it “remembrance” but what the hell are we remembering? I mean, it’s not like we’re remembering the ugliness of war. There we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and the tide of opinion finally turning with people asking why we’re their.. ah yes, the same people that wanted us their to “kick their butts”. So what was it we learned?

[Playing Nineteen by Paul Hardcastle]