Does there, I wonder, come a time when we stop harking back to key anniversaries in both world wars? We are soon to be blanketed in coverage to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. And it wasn’t all that long ago we marked a century since the Great War finally ended its brutal bloodshed. Before you all scream ‘sacrilege’ at me, I’m not necessarily advocating we do but I do think we need to ponder just what purpose it serves in this day and age. When I was growing up in the seventies and eighties, those who fought were still among us. Grandparents had fought – and often died – on the battlefield…
