Not the usual annual rant

 

Today I heard an interesting view regarding Remembrance Sunday;  The thing is unless we understand the exact mood of those terrible times then our harking back to that periods events will be void and pointless. Unless we understand how people ticked in those days our view from the comfortable modern age will be nothing more than a sentimental, slightly cynical exercise . For example do we really understand the glamour that  volunteers  perceived would be theirs on joining the armed forces ? Do we understand the social pressure to conform ? This was particularly perpetuated by women !  Did you realise also that Spiritualism exploded around the World War dates ? Can you imagine that situation today ? Really ?  These times were so removed from our modern mind set that the very act of Remembrance is probably a futile excercise, after all no lessons were learnt, or were they ?