Quote Originally Posted by Daughter of the West View Post
I was listening to the Stupidly Small podcast the other day, and they touched on these themes. One of the presenters grandfather and grandmother both served New Zealand in WW1, and it changed the course of their lives and almost broke them as people as a result of the trauma. They had zero interested in being "celebrated" as a part of ANZAC Day, saw the war as a great big, bloody mess (literally) and never wished to speak of it again. They also thought the "birth of a nation" narrative was rubbish too. Perhaps the only thing they wanted was for people to learn and be reminded not to do it again - stupid waste of lives in both deaths and mental illness, particularly cruising into other countries conflict. That lesson doesn't appear to have been heeded...

I think this was the podcast http://www.stupidlybig.com/episodes/...wction-results
And that was the old wars. Today it is 100 kilo tonnes of TNT in a single nuclear warhead. We are stuffed if we don't have any friends with nuclear warheads.