tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128062592045784724.post8798698081859574047..comments2022-07-24T07:46:47.116+01:00Comments on Elizannie: Whose history of World War One will you believe?/ How I became a pacifistElizanniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15968498385486949779noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128062592045784724.post-27247766274209333712014-01-07T17:57:44.552+00:002014-01-07T17:57:44.552+00:00Really interesting and poignant, Julian. And this ...Really interesting and poignant, Julian. And this is why we should still remember and commemorate - but not celebrate - for the sake of those like Arthur his descendants should thank him but not allow their leaders to convince them that war is right.<br /><br />My two grandfathers survived the war, if my maternal grandfather had not I wouldn't be here as my mother was not born until after the war. However her brother was born prior to Granfer's war service and was born with an orthopedic condition which my grandmother took him regularly to hospital whilst Granfer was away fighting so that Uncle John could eventually walk normally. Grandmother's father said she was wrong to do this because he would only become fodder for the next war and she said 'but this is the war to end wars'. Of course those hopes did not transpire and in fact Uncle John did fight in WW2 and was invalided home from Burma with such a bad case of Malaria that he was left permanently affected, I often wonder if that laid him open to the cancer which claimed him at a relatively young age.Elizanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968498385486949779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128062592045784724.post-78478507835720872222014-01-07T17:17:07.839+00:002014-01-07T17:17:07.839+00:00Here is a bit of my WWI history - http://warelane....Here is a bit of my WWI history - http://warelane.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/arthur-ware-lane/ and http://warelane.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/remembering/<br /><br /><br /><br />Julian Ware-Lanehttp://warelane.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128062592045784724.post-89089083953410141892014-01-06T15:59:46.850+00:002014-01-06T15:59:46.850+00:00I would like to recommend this article in today...I would like to recommend this article in today's Guardian by Richard J Evans : http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/06/richard-evans-michael-gove-history-education?commentpage=2<br />I particularly enjoyed the following of the many interesting comments to the article: "Funny how nobdoy [sic] ever mentions that the leaders of 3 of the main actors - the King, the Kaiser & the Czar ware cousins. So it was basically a family feud"<br />Elizanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968498385486949779noreply@blogger.com