Published: November 10, 2019
Better to confront the human cost – the horrible deaths and the scarred survivors – than indulge in sugar-coated commemoration
Every 11 November there is a lot of talk from our politicians about the peril of forgetting – “lest we forget”.
We’ll hear it again today, as our leaders in commemoration speak of the “glorious dead” and “the fallen” – the Australians who “sacrificed” themselves in a “spirit” of Anzac, apparently to guarantee the “freedoms” (contestable, and an issue for another column) we now enjoy.
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