I respect those who fought and died and thank them for their service but I am certainly not going to venerate them and ascribe them some cult like status as to give guidance on how we should move forward 70 or so years after the event. If you want to honour those who served and died vote the Tory c**** out the next time you have the chance.
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I am proud of and admire the sacrifices made by members of my family during the Second World War. However, I strongly believe that over the years we have almost fetishised this and the First World War and used it to shore up a falsified view of our history. This in an effort to legitimise and add nobility to the existence of and oppression caused by the British Empire.
I think this is especially true of a certain element of our political and media establishment, who have done this to support some dubious military action. This in turn has given some Neanderthal right-wingers a distorted view of national identity, which is then used in turn to support the establishment in marginalisation of others and increasingly selfish, compassion-free actions.