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Originally Posted by Craig
Very strange; empires, nations, and religions will always come and go. I don't understand why people become attached to them. I just don't get it.
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Having attended an Anglican school in England at the same time as Peter Hitchens was, I can understand how such attachments can get deeply imprinted in youth. Couple that with the fact that his father was a officer in the British Navy and the appeal is explained. He has an interesting chapter on war memorials in Britain. I think he correct that apart from Russia, there is no other country with an active war memorial in almost every town.