It is a sobering thought, the largest volunteer military force in history I think. Many families like ours lost nearly a whole generation, so many of my great uncles did not come back. I am anti war, and am against sending troops into another country where some of the population may see us as invaders. Yet I feel this one was different. They were not going into to a country as such, but onto other continents to help those who were being invaded.

saw this, powerful: [newshub.co.nz]

Not at all sure it is a good idea to indulge in such commemorations: At the end of every wars, the survivors affectedly swear "never again! But hardly a generation of most peoples on the planet has lived its life without enduring one or another conflict, and putting on military parades to be admired by children, bayonets a-glinting and drums a-beating is not the way to condition, at long last, the next generations against bloodletting as a means of conflict resolution.

Sorry to hear.