Comments on: Perspective http://blog.tarn.org/2009/04/29/perspective/ Unpicking traditional assumptions about KM and the life of the law Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Gould http://blog.tarn.org/2009/04/29/perspective/#comment-377 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:41:14 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=380#comment-377 I think we also forget sometimes how much these wars (and others since) drew in combatants from countries other than the main antagonists. In Flanders in particular there is a very high proportion of ANZAC graves, as well as Indians and many other Commonwealth nations.

]]> By: Neil Richards http://blog.tarn.org/2009/04/29/perspective/#comment-376 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:09:32 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=380#comment-376 The cemeteries certainly are deeply meaningful. When I was quite young I remember attending the 90th birthday of my Great Auntie just outside Irvine. World War I and II had killed most of her brothers and cousins.

Later, when I visited the cemeteries and saw their graves, the scale of their sacrifice struck home in a way that textbooks never can.

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