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Don't forget the 3,000 who died in the so-called "Troubles". Classic UK establishment understatement.
gruntbuggly | 08.05.25 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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An important reminder, powerfully stated.
Neil | 08.05.25 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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Very powerful
Thomas | 08.05.25 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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I wish that publishers of large numbers, particularly those with lots of zeroes, would punctuate them with commas. I find I have stop and think about what (eg) 1000000 actually means, whereas 1,000,000 is immediately understandable.
Alan P. | 08.05.25 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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Or show that number as 1m.
Ian | 08.05.25 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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I'm with Alan.
Roehamster | 08.05.25 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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oh dear!
M | 08.05.25 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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Yes. Thanks for highlighting the hypocrisy of the 'Free World'.
Brian | 08.05.25 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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I wish the commenting page had a "+1" voting feature.
I would be upvoting many of the previous comments today.
MilesT | 08.05.25 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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Sometimes words fail me.
Keith the Kraut | 08.05.25 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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For many years, the announcer on the BBC’s coverage of the Armistice Day commemorations used to say that there had only been one day of worldwide peace since the Second World War. I wrote to them asking which day this was. I never got a reply, but was interested to observe that they’ve never said it since. I’d be fascinated to know whether I caused it to be dropped, since I suspect they wouldn’t have been able to stand it up.
Baldassaro | 08.05.25 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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not to mention terrorism, repression and tyranny: North Korea, Chile, Argentina, Sierra Leone, so many others. And somehow Serbia didn't make the list.
Peter T | 08.05.25 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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More accurately, 80 years of relative peace in western Europe, perhaps.
Frank F | 08.05.25 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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Grim
scrumpy | 08.05.25 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Baldassaro - the Flander's Field Museum in the Cloth Hall in Ypres when I was there in 2008 said that there hadn't been a day without a war being waged somewhere since Armistice Day in 1918. It also had a counter (then at 216) of the number of war zones that the Red Cross had operated in since 1918.
Greg | 08.05.25 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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When I saw the title of this post in my inbox, I had a hunch what it would contain and I wasn't disappointed.
What I am disappointed about is humankind's tendency to want to kill each other, something that never seems to wane no matter how 'enlightened' or 'civilised' we think we are.
Louise | 08.05.25 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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Heart-breaking that there are still leaders willing to cause such death and misery to those caught up in their power struggles.
Cornish Cockney | 08.05.25 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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Opened this not really thinking, and not with any expectations as to what the post would be.
Fair to say it took me aback.
Grim.
Absolutely grim.
Colly | 08.05.25 - 12:59 p.m. | #
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I've often wondered what would happen if no-one got killed in conflicts. We're already massively overpopulated with humans so add on these hundreds of thousands (and their descendants) and what have we got?
Caroline | 08.05.25 - 2:23 p.m. | #
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Sobering indeed - anyone tempted to indulge in anniversary jingoism would do well to look at this list.
cau1khead | 08.05.25 - 2:41 p.m. | #
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On one hand I am utterly appalled by this, but on the other I am thinking how the world would now be totally unable to support the population had all these killed people survived and reproduced.
Why are men so violent?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 08.05.25 - 8:07 p.m. | #
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Agree with Louise, I can't believe we have come so far and made so many miraculous advances and yet man still uses violence to achieve his aims. All the pointless wars should have taught us something.
Anyoldname | 08.05.25 - 8:25 p.m. | #
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The occasional war is useful and necessary to seperate the wheat from the chaff and blow away the cobwebs. Society becomes very bloated and sclerotic in times of peace, as we have seen in western Europe over the last 80 years. Nothing appalling or pointless about war - it is the natural normal state of things - the way things always have been and always will be.
John | 08.05.25 - 9:41 p.m. | #
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(bolx)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.05.25 - 9:55 p.m. | #
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bluewitch - We’re just checking that comment with Amelia Dyer for you. Standby.
[ outrageous suggestion - people of all genders can be evil ]
Malcolm | 08.05.25 - 10:03 p.m. | #
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Generally what John said, and then the definition of "peace" has always been "not World War" only.
Patrickov | 09.05.25 - 1:21 p.m. | #
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The "existence of too many people" is a myth.
Many countries are facing into demographic time bombs of aging populations with too few children and younger people to support them.
Maybe too many people in some places and not enough elsewhere, but overall not enough.
MilesT | 09.05.25 - 2:56 p.m. | #
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According to the latest published stats from the Mod (to end Feb this year), since 1945 the only years where no UK armed forces personnel have lost their lives as a result of a medal earning operation have been 1968, 2016 and 2024 (medals have been earnable throughout post WW2 era)
JeremyGH | 09.05.25 - 6:58 p.m. | #
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The exact reason we did not attend our community “ lighting the beacon “ celebration. Cannot abide the self satisfied , wilful ignoring of the reality.
Simon newson | 11.05.25 - 12:03 a.m. | #
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