100 Years Since The Great War Was Declared

[lordna]

Honestly, what a load of rubbish to say that

It's perfectly normal to commemorate something on the day it happened -Twin Towers is one, Munich air disaster another, and Hillsborough etc.

You WOULD celebrate something like the end of the war.

I can look at your statement and say you are scoring cheap shots being anti-Tory so you are no better.

To me, we should mark the awful start of the War and try and imagine the scariness of it all and the terrible things our brave boys had to go through.

In the case of your examples Les, I would agree as they were events that took place on a single day. BUT, in the case of the Great War this happened over a period of 4 years and the point I am trying to get across is, that at the beginning of the war, there were NO casualties and nobody could have predicted how bad it was going to be. So it is odd commemorating an event because lives were lost after the event.

I would describe myself as more anti-Cameron than anti-Tory, but what other reason could have motivated him to commemorate something four years too early?