ONCE again, we approach the time of year when military propaganda becomes acceptable - to some.
Should we not question the annual farce that is Remembrance Sunday and do away with it forever? We believe that it is entirely wrong to deliberately engage in violence with the intention of killing people, and yet we glorify such wrong-doing on Remembrance Sunday. Those who were killed set out deliberately to kill their fellow men and only received their just desserts.
Whereas there might have been some justification for it to remember those who were deceived into submitting the slaughter of the First World War, there is no justification for remembering those who have been killed pursuing the illegal, and therefore murderous, war-mongering currently being carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan. That such deaths are now included in the day confirms Remembrance Sunday is an exercise in military propaganda.
G EVANS.
Chippenham
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